From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 31 13:44:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17495 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 13:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17155; Sun, 31 May 1998 13:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id EAA04702; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 04:41:38 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199805312041.EAA04702@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dom Mitchell cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 21:31:52 +0100." Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 04:41:37 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dom Mitchell wrote: > On 28 May 1998, Peter Wemm proclaimed: > > Dom Mitchell wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be easier to just stick with 8.8.8 until the licensing > > > issues of this latest sendmail can be clarified? > > > > Yes, that's pretty much what is happening by default. I have asked the > > sendmail people twice now about this and still have got no response. I > > might try sending by fax next. I find it quite ironic that people setting > > up to sell sendmail don't have a handle on email. > > *sigh* Sadly very often true. I've taken that back. The explanation was far less sinister, they were just out of town for a week and were swamped. This is under way now. > > > P.S. You left out MMDF. :-) > > > > MMDF can go away and die. I've wasted too much of my life fighting MMDF > > (and often loosing).. > > I wholeheartedly agree after a year of working as mailman at Demon > Internet. There are too many fools still out there on the Internet who > think that it's actually a useful mailer. Mind you, it did have > anti-relaying first. :-) Yes, it does the anti-relaying too damn well - that was the problem I always had, I never really got a good handle on getting it to intentionally relay mail... :-] Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message