Re: DNS & Mail

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

I know this is old, but I actually know the answer, so...

"Daniel E. Markle" wrote:

> I think the sendmail authors are evil, personally.  There are only two reasons
> I can think of for making configuration that difficult:
> 
> 1. They are bad programmers.  Hard for me to believe considering the quality
> of sendmail itself.
> 2. They intentionally obfuscated the config files.  I think this is what they
> have done so they can sell their commercial gui configurator.
> 
> Just my opinion, but their actions seem to support 2.

Actually, the sendmail.cf file was designed so that it could be
processed as quickly as possible by the sendmail program.  Not much of
an issue today, but apparently it was at one time.  The one and two
character codes immediately followed by arguments were VERY quick to
process.  And sendmail can run often, so it added up.