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From: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Subject: Re: sendmail
In-Reply-To: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org's message of Mon, 3 May 1993 09:46:23 GMT
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 18:16:25 GMT
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In article <hwr.736422383@snert.ka.sub.org> hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

   The only thing, why I moved from sendmail+IDA to smail was, that sendmail
   wasn't 8-bit clean (how about 6.0?).

You have to use MIME, surely, if you want to send binary data.  Even
if your mail agent is 8-bit clean, someone else's won't be, and it
will munge your message.

   But the sendmail.cf aren't harder to
   read and understand than the smail-configs. The Smail configs have more
   text for the same thing.

What, so:

R@$+:$+			$:$>5@$1:$2

is just as easy to understand as:

visible_name = bar.foo.com

(to take two random extracts from the configuration files of each
program)
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