On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, William Yardley wrote:
WYSeems kind of overkill to write a new tool just because the one
WYbeing used isn't written in Perl.
Isn't there a project to rewrite all the Debian utilities in Python
instead of Perl because some Python people are offended by the presence of
Perl
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Simon Wistow wrote:
SW1) To shut people up who said that there was no Perl based MLM
Did majordomo switch from Perl? I mean, that's the granddaddy of all
MLMs, isn't it?
SW2) It allowed per user Reply-To munging settings thus shutting up
SW even more whiners
Heh.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Dave Cross wrote:
DCHave you looked at the source code for majordomo? Are you _sure_ that's
DCPerl :)
Heh. Yeah, here's where I admit I wrote a mailing list program myself
(some ten-ish years ago) because I couldn't figure out how to modify
majordomo.
Here's where I
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
HDPClose enough, I think. It's a really interesting conversation to have; web
Oh, good, because clearly Sudafed (plus Diet Dew to combat the drowsiness)
clearly makes me chatty.
It would be nice to be able to say Let's take this conversation
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
RSNo, I think enough of us have a vested interest in seeing this kind of thing
RSdone properly.
Don't encourage me. I'll start posting SQL schemas and stuff. And
assigning tasks. And setting up a repository (thereby terrifying my
husband/sysadmin;
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
RSWow. I had never noticed this bit of HORRIBLENESS before.
Um... thanks?
RSEmail::MIME, once again, is shown to be useful for a very, very small set of
RSemail. That is, email that is not wrong; all correct email won't work
either,
RSbut this email
Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
If you are relying on From (or Sender) headers for access control, you have
already lost. Almost every part of the email header and SMTP transaction can
be faked by a malicious user.
Depends on what you mean by access control. I can easily see where you'd
want to
Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
I mean what the OP said he was using it for: running various commands when
messages are received.
But that can be something as soft as (as it turned out), a mailing list
response. Which was actually *my* first thought (unsurprisingly).
I'm not talking about
