Mike Cardwell wrote: > * on the Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:29:32AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > > >>Maybe it is a sign of advancing age - or having eaten my fair share of 'poor >>man's food'.... >> >>But I'm having a hard time differentiating between 'hash' and 'spam' these >>days... > > > *shrug* dictionary.com? > > >>Either contribute code or give it a rest! > > > It may come as a surprise to you to find out that most people on this > list aren't c programmers, or aren't good enough c programmers to > contribute code. Does this mean they should shut up and > "give it a rest" ? I fail to see why an enthusiastic request for a new > and useful feature should be dismissed in such a rude manner. > > Mike >
Not [ choosing to | being able to ] code does not grant a right to whine and whimper for days on end. As with trying to teach a pig how to whistle, it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ;-) But to be less abrupt: Exim has long since gone far beyond the field of an smtp/lmtp MTA. One might more properly term it a "Message *Management* Agent" (MMA?). Among hundreds of other features, PH has given us hash handling, not only for its primary (if somewaht infrequent) use for password handling, but as an available general-purpose tool. Several folk have pointed this out, citing the sepcification, but to no avail. A 'hash', or arrays of same - even if more clearly defined as 'not like what we already have, but like <some relevant example>.....'. - and for what 'needful' purpose, is no panacea, let alone even clearly of value-add within the smtp or post-delivery process. IOW - it is hard to fathom why and where more comprehensive hash handling could be of more general - or even *specialized* - utility to Exim than the tools it already includes. Even so, to the extent that more comprehensive such tools might light a person's particular fire, all one needs to do is 'reach out and touch' the operating system Exim is hosted on - which have all manner of built-in and optional add-on facilities for such things. So: "Where's the beef?" ...and what do six-lane highways have to do with [refusal | inability] to read? Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
