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From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: frozen $s in 5.65 + ida-1.4.2
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.153340.2167@wsrcc.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 15:33:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.090701.25065@wsrcc.com> <1991Feb25.142401.735@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Wolfgang S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Washington DC.
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>In article <1991Feb25.090701.25065@wsrcc.com> wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) writes:
>>I am having problems with using $s in ruleset S0.  It is failing only
>>*only* if sendmail is run from a frozen config file.  It appears that
>>the $s macro is still frozen when S0 is run.  If I freeze in a value
>>with 'sendmail -bz -oMsFuNkYsTuFf' then I will still see that frozen
>>value at S0 time.  Is this a problem with a known solution?

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> "That's not a bug, that's a feature."
> It is part of the definition of freezing a configuration that all macro
>values are frozen.

*sigh* I guess my posting wasn't clear enough.  The frozen value of $s
is not being "thawed'.  The value of the command line argument
-oMsXXXXXX is not making it into sendmail's runtime $s variable.

For example the following invocation would return "FuNkYsTuFf" instead
of the correct string 'uucphost' for $s during rule #0.  This is most
certainly NOT a useful feature!

/usr/lib/sendmail -ee -i -oMrUUCP -oMsuucphost -fFromhost!fromuser 'touser@tohost.com'

> Why on earth would you be putting '-oMsFuNkYsTuFf' on the command line
>for freezing? 

To illustrate the problem.

-wolfgang
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