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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by INTPenis on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:22AM (#33517751)
All you really need to show is how Linus Åkesson made a Turtle animation[1] using Sendmail cf. That level of complexity should not exist in any configuration language.

1. https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/sendmail/index.php

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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by hericium on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:37AM (#33518098)
Life is too short for software with its own, unique configuration language. I've spent months on learning Exim configuration gymnastics, trying to make it both efficient and useful and without breaking functionality used by a company/organization.
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