Would they? I suspect many would just need a little precision hammering (like
for elongating gold into gold leaf), some more than others.
Le 23 août 2023 13:59:08 UTC, Doug McIntyre via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> a
écrit :
>On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 01:08:36PM +0300, Lena--- via mailop wrote:
>> > I don't know where
>> > to buy the brand of LSD that they did at UC Berkeley when they wrote this,
>> > in order to make m4 make sense.
>>
>> They chose incomprehensible m4 in order to coerce you to buy support from
>> them.
>
>M4 isn't even the configuration language?!, it is a standard macro tool
>package that gathered
>bits of configuration together to make configuring it a bit easier for
>standard setups.
>Having the configuration bits wrangled with M4 came about much later in the
>lifecycle.
>Most people haven't used M4 for anything else other than sendmail config bits.
>
>Sendmail the software was around for almost 2 decades before Sendmail Inc was
>formed.
>The Bat book was the original tech support..
>
>The Sendmail configuration is mostly a pattern match based setup. For
>back when there were 100's of different email system addressing ways,
>and 100s of gateways between them. If they had to only deal with the
>way Internet mail works today, they would never have had to have the
>complexity seen in the base sendmail config.
>
>If we suddenly had to deal with the email address complexity of the 80's,
>all the other email servers would fall over dead.
>
>
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