When more can be too much
This article proves by construction that sendmail rewriting rules are Turing-complete.
So THAT's why I hate sendmail configuration! In my mind there are two ways to do configuration files:
- for simple cases, a .ini type with named groups of name/value pairs (although the .ini format itself sucks)
- otherwise, use a well know, simple to embed, structured language. The way aolserver uses tcl in it's configuration file is a good example of this (example).
09:51 PM, 06 Jan 2004 by Mark Aufflick Permalink






