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From: he@spurv.runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: decnet mail addressing and MH
Keywords: decnet addresses MH
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Date: 21 Oct 90 10:32:33 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.220124.7784@cs.utk.edu> moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes:
>Unfortunately, this is difficult to do well with sendmail rewrite rules, 
>because:
>
>a) The rule should only apply to messages that come from your DECnet
>   gateway, not to messages that come from other sources.  Sendmail
>   does not give you a good way to do selective rewriting based on
>   where a message *comes from* (as opposed to mailer-specific rewrite
>   rules for outgoing mail).  IDA sendmail does a better job.

This can be circumvented by having the mail11 receiver (mail11d) call
sendmail with a special configuration file only designed to rewrite DECnet
addresses, and then passing the mail onwards to the real sendmail. (No, I
didn't think of this myself...)

- Havard