Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate

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From: spc (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner)
Subject: Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate
Date: 02:46 on 26 May 2006
It was thus said that the Great Zach White once stated:
> 
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:14:43AM +0000, Zach White wrote:
> > According to a friend who is a sendmail ninja, I'll have to change the 
> > source. Good thing that + isn't used very often in code, isn't it?
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> My first rant, and I forget the crucial piece. I don't normally reply to
> my own posts, honest.
> 
> Sendmail does exactly what I want, if I use user+<whatever>. I want it
> to use user-<whatever>. That's where the changing the source part comes
> in.

  The actual *source code* to sendmail, or the sendmail.cf file?  Granted,
changing either is hateful, but of the two, I think I'd rather change the
sendmail.cf file (which I've done before and will never have to do again,
thankfully).

  -spc (If a configuration file needs a configuration file, then that's a
	definite sign of bad design ... )


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