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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: is there a right way use to the map
Message-ID: <512@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 12:20:16 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.512
Posted: Wed Nov 21 12:20:16 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 07:33:56 EST
References: <22@politik.UUCP> <9600006@uiucdcsb.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus
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One piece of software being developed by the UUCP project is
similar to what Ray Essick describes - a routing back end for
sendmail.  (Our current program is called uudom because it has
some understanding of domains.)

Note that sendmail does have a flag to batch several recipients
with one invocation of the back end, so you only have to copy
the file once.  This is hard to use when the decision about who
the next hop is rests with the back end, but if the back end is
capable of splitting recipients up, it can be used.  Our program
does this splitting.

While not modifying sendmail is a goal of ours (mainly for those
sites with binary licenses) we suspect a few mods will be necessary
to keep the From: line straight.  These mods will be static, as
will the sendmail.cf file itself.

	Mark Horton