Sendmail

I'm talking to sendmail
sendmail
With TCP/IP
I'm talking to sendmail
Daemons and forgers and crackers
And we're all talking to sendmail
My physical layer is 10 Base T
It's a lot like my phone cable
But I've reason to expect
That I can still connect
To sendmail

Mail comes back to tell me it's bounced
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know her address
As if I had forgotten
Her login doesn't start with 's'
And she says losing data is a flaw in the design
Messages should get there all the time
Everybody thinks that they know

How to talk to sendmail
With TCP/IP
I'm talking to sendmail
Daemons and forgers and crackers
And we're all talking to sendmail

And my transport providers
Are streams and Berkeley sockets
I'm looking at streams and Berkeley
But I've reason to expect
That I can still connect
With sendmail

There is a host in New York City
That dials me up to get UUCP
And sometimes when I'm dialing, calling
Or batching up the email I say
Oh, so this is what they need
They need a way to talk to sendmail
And they say losing data is a flaw in the design
Messages should get there all the time
Everybody thinks that they know

About sendmail, sendmail
I'm talking to sendmail
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to hack
sendmail
And I may be obliged to expand
Every alias and bang-path
Or maybe there's no way to route it now
Maybe I've a reason to believe
There's something to receive
From sendmail