The intro describing the history of computers and networking is really interesting to read! It was all before my time, but it truly sounds like it was the equivalent of the Wild West, with so many different architectures and standards. It must have been quite the curious experience to be in the middle of all that!
The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Sendmail (2011)
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Only because of the amount of abuse performed using it... I have fond memories rewriting sendmail.cf and mc files on BSD. Ran servers on pc hardware and mirrored hdd drives; they pushed mail like nobody's business. If the Exchange box fell over at the weekend, sendmail would sit there patiently waiting (screaming DEFERRED silently to log) with tens of thousands of mails until it came alive again, and push them out in…
Is your AI a Vogon?
Re: The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Sendmail (2011)
#13Tangentially related:
"The case of the 500-mile email"
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Only because of the amount of abuse performed using it... I have fond memories rewriting sendmail.cf and mc files on BSD. Ran servers on pc hardware and mirrored hdd drives; they pushed mail like nobody's business. If the Exchange box fell over at the weekend, sendmail would sit there patiently waiting (screaming DEFERRED silently to log) with tens of thousands of mails until it came alive again, and push them out in…
My company used sendmail to interface with our one very large and several smaller web sites that interfaced with our C applications running the whole business. Any other mail software required too much fiddling to get an interface to work, if it was possible at all.
We loved sendmail.