Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate

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From: Tom Duff
Subject: Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate
Date: 17:33 on 26 May 2006

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> The sendmail configuration language is Turing complete
...
> so it certainly can do this.

Probably true, but not necessarily.  For example, the
universality result may have problem-encoding
requirements that preclude this.  See item 64 of HAKMEM.
http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/automata.html
(There's a transcription error on this page: limited should
be unlimited.)

-- 
Tom Duff.  There's a broken light for every heart on Broadway.

There's stuff above here

Bruce Richardson 15:02 on 26 May 2006
- Tom Duff 17:33 on 26 May 2006
- Zach White 23:59 on 30 May 2006
  - Juerd 07:11 on 31 May 2006
    - too deep to show

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