Re: Sendmail 8.9.0 claims a Linux kernel bug

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Jun 1998 23:49:21 GMT

Followup to: <yttd8bxnt7v.fsf@gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu>
By author: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Alan> Fix sendmail, better yet get a better mail daemon
>
> Wish I could. Trust me, I wish I could. :) But this is an ISP with
> an ancient hand-crafted sendmail.cf that nobody actually knows how
> it works, and upgrading to zmailer or qmail would entail someone
> figuring out exactly what every single line in the old sendmail.cf
> does. *shudder*
>

Why? Why not simply decide what you need and re-implement from
scratch? I'm sure that'd you get rid of a lot of cruft that way...

-hpa

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