Mark and I
ended up helping John (the dot com paper millionaire and keyboardist for a
Grateful Dead coverband) set up a new feature on his site. It involved deep
hacking of both sendmail.cf
and the Sendmail source code
itself.
Some things we found out:
- Sendmail ignores the current environment setting, using its own
environment when it runs.
- It's easy to see why sendmail has so many buffer overwrites—the code
is attrocious.
- Sure, sendmail now allows you to name rule sets instead of number them
(in
sendmail.cf
), but does it show the name when running in address
test mode? Nooooooo …
- Network analyzers are fun. Very impressive the way they can determine
cable length.
- Eric Allman has a lot of explaining to do.
We might have actually finished had John not crashed on us.
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