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From: aggarwal@jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: MX records and sendmail rulesets
Message-ID: <1991May7.190309.26723@jvnc.net>
Date: 7 May 91 19:03:09 GMT
Reply-To: vikas@r2d2.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
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I am running the MX version of sendmail from Berkeley on a Sun system.

What exactly is the '$[name$]' rule supposed to do ? The paper (written
sometime in 1987) says that it replaces the `name' with the cname, and
I was hoping that it would do the same for the MX entries.

However, in address test mode, if I just add the following rule to
ruleset 0,

R$*<@$*>$*            $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3

even though it does a proper ANY query from the nameserver, it doesn't
replace the '$2' with the MX entry for '$2' - any idea if its supposed
to or what I am supposed to do to make it replace the '$2' with the
MX entry ?

Grrr,,, these cryptic unix developers....


 -vikas
 vikas@jvnc.net						(609) 258-2403
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