Sorry I wasn't clear. I'm referring to perl's magic variables:
$_
@_
$|
$%
$=
$-
$~
$/
$+
$*
and many more.
So my point was, if someone can keep all those straight in their heads, then
sendmail's magic variables shouldn't be to hard either.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Dan Jenkins
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:56 AM
> To: Paul Lussier
> Cc: Greater NH Linux Users' Group
> Subject: Re: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)
>
>
> Paul Lussier wrote:
> > In a message dated: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:19:27 EST
> > "Jeff Macdonald" said:
> > >I always thought that if one understood perl code and regular
> expressions,
> > >one should be able to handle sendmail's cf file.
> >
> > That's kindof like saying I can read latin and expecting
> someone to understand
> > something written arabic or yiddish or something, isn't it?
> >
> > sendmail has been around a lot longer than perl, and though
> sendmail.cf does
> > use regexes heavily, it's a lot worse than any perl code I've ever seen.
>
> Yup. Good analogy. While it looks vaguely like dense Perl, it has no
> connection.
>
> Fragment of sendmail.cf which rewrites sender addresses...
> I know perl and that's not perl. ;-)
>
> S10
> R<@> $n
> R@ <@ $*> $n
> R$+ $: $>50 $1
> R$* $: $>94 $1
> S20
> R$+ < @ $* > $: $1
>
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