Re^2: Reinventing the wheel

Funny, I thought the accepted party line was "If you're going to write your own {mail server, mail parser, XML parser, web server, et cetera} and you don't know what an RFC is or why that matters, you're wasting your time."

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Re^3: Reinventing the wheel by DrHyde (Prior) on Nov 03, 2011 at 10:28 UTC
To be fair, you are crazy if you want to write your own MTA, but only because there are so many weird requirements and buggy implementations that you'll have to be compatible with.	[reply]
Re^4: Reinventing the wheel by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 03, 2011 at 17:20 UTC
That's half the problem. The other half of the problem is that if anyone else uses your MTA, you've likely multiplied the weird requirements and buggy implementations existing in the world. Improve your skills with Modern Perl: the free book.	[reply]