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@xconde @Meyerweb somewhere I probably still have a copy of the pre-compiler sendmail.cf I made to do least-cost name-, host-, and transport-based routing.

i may even also have the tools I wrote to manage it, which was... kind of like a sendmail compiler before there were sendmail compilers. xD

sendmail is terrifying and hilarious and i still run it out of spite

10 July at 20:01 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.murkworks.net
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xconde

@moira maybe it's because I never learnt how m4 macros work, but I think people like you are wizards.

10 July at 20:35 | Open on social.chinwag.org
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@xconde it absolutely _does not_ stay in your brain. it would take me a while to get back up to speed if I had to do it again and thank fuck it's not the kind of thing i have to do anymore.

we had three different transport layers all with very different and variable costs and speeds and a hostile admin on the far side of the most important uplink. it was nightmare adventures _every day_ and I do _not_ miss it.

but that was a sendmail.cf that both made it work and made the beardiest of neckbeards cry, and yeah. still proud of that part.

@xconde it absolutely _does not_ stay in your brain. it would take me a while to get back up to speed if I had to do it again and thank fuck it's not the kind of thing i have to do anymore.

we had three different transport layers all with very different and variable costs and speeds and a hostile admin on the far side of the most important uplink. it was nightmare adventures _every day_ and I do _not_ miss it.

10 July at 21:23 | Open on mastodon.murkworks.net
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