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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:51:12 -0500
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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
>> are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then
>> let m4 sort out sendmail.cf.
>
> IOW, sendmail has a configuration file so incomprehensible that the
> configuration file needs a configuration file.

Internet mail is quite complex, yes.