vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) (03/06/90)
[LWall] >> Actually, I was thinking about what I'd need to write the new rn in perl. >> I don't want to rewrite sendmail. (Not consciously, anyway. :-) But *I* do, and Perl is going to be the vehicle. Just warning everyone in advance. You know how easy it is to interpret sendmail rewriting rules using Perl? Not that one would use rewriting rules, especially not the ones sendmail uses, but just so you all know: It Can Be Done... -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab <vixie@decwrl.dec.com> Palo Alto, California {ames,att,uunet}!decwrl!vixie
pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) (03/08/90)
vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >>[LWall] Actually, I was thinking about what I'd need to write the new >>rn in perl. I don't want to rewrite sendmail. (Not consciously, anyway. :-) >But *I* do, and Perl is going to be the vehicle. [...] It Can Be Done... After first porting sendmail 5.61 to a crippled System V machine, then endeavoring to make it communicate with Wollongong smtp and Sun sendmail (and have it's processes *really* die when done), I would love to see a sendmail running in Perl. I Will Use It! Please post it! -paul -- -- Paul Anderson * h:404-565-0761 w:404-841-4000 {mathcs.emory,gatech}.edu!stiatl!pda || pda@SalesTech.Com
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (03/08/90)
According to vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie): >[LWall] > I don't want to rewrite sendmail. (Not consciously, anyway. :-) > >But *I* do, and Perl is going to be the vehicle. I suggest that anyone who wants to hack on mail with Perl use Deliver version 2.0 patch 9 as a start. It understands "#!/bin/perl" in the shell-scripts-aka-delivery-files used to control mail delivery. And besides, I wrote it. :-) -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip> "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."