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From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail and MB records
Keywords: BIND, MB, MR, MG, MINFO, RFC1035
Message-ID: <53981@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 19 Mar 90 01:58:29 GMT
References: <1990Mar15.190444.14424@sobeco.com> <139@rayssd.ray.com>
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> I modified 5.61 sendmail to look up MB and MR records.  Coding-wise
> it's not really too tough....

Lookup of BIND information (and lots more including Yellow Pages info) has
been done in the IDA + BIND 1.5 extensions to sendmail 5.61.

Here's the original posting as I saw it:

> From Dan@dna.lth.se Fri Jan 26 02:10:26 1990
> Path: nimrod!sgi!decwrl!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!sunic!lth.se!newsuser
> From: Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson)
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
> Subject: name server based sendmail
> Message-ID: <1990Jan26.101026.5696@lth.se>
> Date: 26 Jan 90 10:10:26 GMT
> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server)
> Organization: Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
> Lines: 20
> 
> I have now and then seen questions about use of name server from
> sendmail.cf and if MB,MR.. could be used for alias lookup.
> 
> For you who are interested to try, you can try my sendmail which is
> available by ftp from lth.se in directory Network/Sendmail.
> 
> My sendmail is: sendmail 5.61 with the ida patches
>                 other small patches from the net
>                 enhancements for name sever use and international support.
> 
> The name server support concists of extensions to query bind from rules
> in sendmail.cf (for example: test for an MX) and to use bind for alias
> lookup instead of /etc/aliases.
> 
> The international support concists of: use of iso 8859-1 in letters,
> translation to 7-bits if the receiver cannot handle 8-bit iso 8859-1.
> And special translation tables for special hosts (for example to
> convert the characterset in a letter from a Mac into iso 8859-1).
> 
>    Dan

I have built this version of sendmail, and it seems to work well.  I don't
think we need to re-invent the wheel.

	- Robert Stephens