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Try Postmaster, an MTA written in Haskell?

Try Postmaster, an MTA written in Haskell?

Posted Nov 11, 2004 18:26 UTC (Thu) by dcoutts (subscriber, #5387)
In reply to: Try Postmaster, an MTA written in Haskell? by bronson
Parent article: Sendmail X

> And that config file looks just painful to administer in the real world.

That's not a configuration file format, that's a programming lanuage! It's a full featured mature functional programming language.

I guess the pain factor depends on how complicated your setup is. For a simple setup a programming lanugage as config file is probably overkill, but for a highly customised setup it's probably much simpler than some ordinary inexpressive config description format. I head that sendmail is pretty configurable and it's config file format can get pretty hairy. :-)


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