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Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail 
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:05:04 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> The "mailer" object, when installed, provides a "mailer-configuration" item
> to the "network" configuration class, which provides facilities for
> configuring the mailer.  It also provides a "mailer-endisable" function
> to the "security" class.  This function knows how to en/disable the
> "mailer" in such a fashion that the "mailer-configuration" object can
> intelligently deal with it.

That sounds pretty neat!  I like this model as it allows things to
remain organized in a consistent framework without sacrificing
extensibility of the model as a whole.  Yes, definitely!

					Jordan