Re: [exim] Referring people to the docs vs. an example

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Author: Martin A. Brooks
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To: Mar Matthias Darin
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Referring people to the docs vs. an example
Mar Matthias Darin wrote:
>> Really? Glad to know you value it so highly.
>>
>
> Exim beats the pants of of sendmail any and everyday of the week. My first
> experience with sendmail was my last.... Its not often I say this, but I
> truly despise sendmail.


That's a bit harsh. Truely sendmail was, in its day, the Swiss army
knife of MTAs. If you had two wildly incompatible mail systems then,
with a bit of fiddling, you can could create sendmail rules to
seamlessly translate mail from A to B and back again.

If M. Perkel thinks the exim's configuration options, syntax and
documentation leave something to be desired, then sendmail's equivalent
will come as an "interesting" challenge I'm sure.

# do special header rewriting
R$* <@> $*        $@ $1 <@> $2            pass null host through
R< @ $* > $*        $@ < @ $1 > $2            pass route-addr through
R$*            $: $>61 $1            qualify unqual'ed names
R$+            $: $>93 $1            do masquerading
# when masquerading convert login name to firstname.lastname
R$- < @ $M . > $*    $: $(realnames $1 $) < @ $M . > $2    user=>first.last






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