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From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Isn't rule 0 the final path?
Message-ID: <1459@vicom.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 89 09:04:24 GMT
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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Reading sendmail manual (as distributed by Sun), it appears that path given
to sendmail is parsed by rule 3, then 0, which determines which mailer to
use.  The To: address is then parsed by 3, and in the case of uucp mail, 23.
The From: goes through 3, then 13.

I decided that I didn't like the way my To: lines went out, so I started
mucking with ruleset 5, called by 23.  One of the (apparently) more
important things I did was to remove the rule that generated u%h and add
some that would generate u@h.  I didn't touch ruleset 0, or any ruleset
called by 0.

While sendmail -bt says that ruleset 0 works correctly and ruleset 23 works
the way I want, the value of $h!$u passed to the mailer is messed up.
Specifically, if I enter a!b!c, the mailer gets a!c@b.  Who's screwing
it up?
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com