Re: [exim-dev] UML Diagrams

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Author: David Woollard
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] UML Diagrams
Hi phillip !

Thank you for the email !

I'm taking a module at brookes university and it involved designing a small
proxy for exim to block or allow emails based on their domain ! frankly, i
have no idea where to start !

Is there any chance you could point me in the right direction ?

Any info you could give me would literally save my bacon !

Many thanks

-Dave

On 11/13/06, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, David Woollard wrote:
>
> > Hi there, I was wondering if there were any kind of UML diagrams or any
> > other kind of design documentation for exim lying around ? I'm doing
> > research for a college project. Any help you could give me would be
> > fantastic !
>
> The only design documentation for Exim is the comments that are
> liberally strewn throughout the code. Many years ago I used to write
> technical documentation for the programs I wrote; it went out of date
> extremely rapidly, and being separate from the code was harder to
> consult when editing. So I changed to writing what I thought was
> necessary into the code itself. I do my best to keep the comments in
> step with the code - often adding and amending them when people send me
> patches that fail to touch the comments. For a program that is
> continually being updated (and Exim isn't alone in being like that), I
> now think this is the best way of trying to keep everything in step.
> If I recall correctly, this is one of the techniques recommended by
> "Extreme Programming".
>
>
> --
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
> Get the Exim 4 book:    http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

>