Hi phillip ! Thank you for the email !
I'm taking a module at brookes university and it involved designing a small proxy for exim to block or allow emails based on their domain ! frankly, i have no idea where to start ! Is there any chance you could point me in the right direction ? Any info you could give me would literally save my bacon ! Many thanks -Dave On 11/13/06, Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, David Woollard wrote: > > > Hi there, I was wondering if there were any kind of UML diagrams or any > > other kind of design documentation for exim lying around ? I'm doing > > research for a college project. Any help you could give me would be > > fantastic ! > > The only design documentation for Exim is the comments that are > liberally strewn throughout the code. Many years ago I used to write > technical documentation for the programs I wrote; it went out of date > extremely rapidly, and being separate from the code was harder to > consult when editing. So I changed to writing what I thought was > necessary into the code itself. I do my best to keep the comments in > step with the code - often adding and amending them when people send me > patches that fail to touch the comments. For a program that is > continually being updated (and Exim isn't alone in being like that), I > now think this is the best way of trying to keep everything in step. > If I recall correctly, this is one of the techniques recommended by > "Extreme Programming". > > > -- > Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service > Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book > -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
