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On 01/19/2018 11:59 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I meant the sematics and sytax of the command line options and the data |
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> accepted on stdin and produced on stdout. I probably should have said |
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> "usage" rather than API. Since I always use that utility from a Python |
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> or Bash program, in my head that's its API. |
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I figured that's what you mean. I agree that's effectively what it has |
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become. |
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I think I've read too many "the command line is not an API" blog |
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articles recently. |
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> Exactly. |
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;-) |
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> Thanks. |
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You're welcome. |
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> I was sort of afraid that sendmail was going to be the answer. |
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Not necessarily. |
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I expect that any modern MTA can be configured to behave the same way. |
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> The last time I ran sendmail was on a Sun-3/60 machine, and I never did |
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> quite understand how to configure it... |
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Wow. I bet that was pre-m4 configuration days. - I've been running |
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Sendmail (by choice) for ~18 years and have always used m4 to configure |
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it. - From what I've heard, the pre-m4 days were a LOT more difficult. |
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I expect that what you're wanting to do can be done in less than an |
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hour. Maybe even less than half an hour. |
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Let me know if you want pointers from a Sendmail vet that's built |
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(re)built a Gentoo server with Sendmail, functioning as a backup MX w/ |
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filtering, in the last month. (I converted from CentOS 6.x to Gentoo - |
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17.0 profile.) |
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Grant. . . . |
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unix || die |
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