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- From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: Sendmail problem on AT&T unix 7300 (3b1).
- References: <1992Dec29.203409.9037@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM> <C04BCM.Lz5@fang.att.com> <1993Jan4.041940.8007@blilly.uucp>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 01:00:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.010001.14561@blilly.uucp>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
- Lines: 42
-
- In article <1993Jan4.041940.8007@blilly.uucp>,
- posted to comp.sys.3b1,comp.mail.misc, I wrote:
-
- >In article <C04BCM.Lz5@fang.att.com>,
- > posted to comp.sys.3b1,comp.mail.misc,
- > ebd@fang.att.com (Elliot B Dierksen) wrote:
- >>
- >>I don't mean to start a religious war here, but why do you think smail is
- >>inferior?
- >
- >Two reasons come immediately to mind:
- [...]
- >2) programmability. [...]
-
- In case anybody wonders about the implications of this, or about exactly
- what I meant, I'll illustrate by an example:
-
- Suppose one wants to generate mail which complies with FIPS 98 (also available
- as RFC841 [*]). Such mail is required to have one and only one Posted-Date
- header (Posted-Date is to Date what a post office postmark is to the date
- printed on the letter contained in the envelope which bears the postmark)
- (See FIPS 98 for details; sections 3.1, 3.1.5, 3.3, Appendix A, Appendix D.1,
- and Appendix E.8 are applicable to Posted-Date).
-
- To do that using sendmail, one adds the following line to sendmail.cf:
-
- H?D?Posted-Date: $b
-
- Th-th-that's all folks. Done. Finito. Fait accompli. (all mailers which
- need timestamps will have the D flag set)
-
- Now would somebody like to explain how to accomplish the same thing with
- smail? (without modifying source code)
-
- * The cover page states that RFC841 ``does not specify a standard for
- the ARPA Internet'' while the document itself states that the ``standard
- applies to Federal departments and agencies [...] in networked systems [...].''
- It certainly seems that the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S.
- Defense Department qualified at the time the document was written. A
- standard yet not a standard...
- --
- Bruce Lilly ...uupsi!monymsys!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
-