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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Path: sparky!uunet!harker.com!harker
- From: harker@harker.com (Robert Harker)
- Subject: Re: Perl Package to test Sendmail.cf?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.002450.2473@harker.com>
- Sender: news@harker.com
- Organization: Harker Systems, 1180 Hester Ave, San Jose, CA 95126
- References: <1992Aug12.120807.3834@grebyn.com> <1992Aug12.155740.17492@decuac.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:24:50 GMT
- Lines: 110
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- The perl script you are looking for is called "checksendmail" written by
- Gene Kim & Rob Kolstad & Jeff Polk and is available via anonymous FTP
- from boulder.colorado.edu in /pub/sendmail/checksendmail.shar (path name
- might be wrong).
-
- check sendmail takes a list of addresses and first runs it through ruleset
- zero to determine which mailer is chosen for each address and what host and
- address gets passed to the specific mailer. Then it passes all of the address
- through ththe sender and recipient rule sets for each mailer. It then
- prints the results in a nice format.
-
-
- In article <1992Aug12.155740.17492@decuac.dec.com> avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
- >
- >Why is this better or different than testing sendmail using sendmail?
- >
-
- checksendmail is a wonderfull program for checking a series of addresses.
-
- sendmail -bt is very useful for debugging a specific rule or a specific
- address that is broken because it shows you all of the steps the address
- rewrite goes through.
-
- checksendmail is better to test a range of your known addresses and
- address types (formats). It tells you if all of the rules are doing
- the right thing as a whole. Sample output is attached
-
- One way I use it is to check that a new rewriting rule does not break
- other addresses in unexpected way. I have the output before the new rule
- and the output after the new rule and I diff them to see what changes
-
- Hope this helps
- Thanks in advance
- RLH
-
- Robert Harker
- Harker Systems Sun Sysadmin Consulting
- harker@harker.com 1180 Hester Ave
- apple!motcsd!harker!harker San Jose, CA 95126
- {netcom,uunet}!harker!harker 408-295-9432
-
-
- Here is an example checksendmail address file:
- # Dumb UUCP neighbor addresses should be forwarded to our UUCP neighbor
- # as bang style addresses
- dumbo!user
- user@dumbo.uucp
- # domain style addresses should be forwarded to our smart UUCP neighbor
- # as domain style addresses
- netcom!user
- user@netcom.uucp
- user@netcom
- netcom!uucphost!user
- # All other addresses should be forwarded to smart UUCP neighbor
- # unchanged
- uucphost!user
- user@anything.dom
-
- Here is the checksendmail output:
- Mail address resolution
- (ruleset zero, which mailer and what address gets passed)
- dumbo!user --(dumbuu)--> user[dumbo]
- user@dumbo.uucp --(dumbuu)--> user[dumbo]
- netcom!user --(smartu)--> user[netcom]
- user@netcom.uucp --(smartu)--> user[netcom]
- user@netcom --(smartu)--> user[netcom]
- netcom!uucphost!user --(smartu)--> uucphost!user[netcom]
- uucphost!user --(smartu)--> user@uucphost.uucp[uunet]
- user@anything.dom --(smartu)--> user<@anything.dom>[uunet]
-
- `To' address transformations for mailer smartuucp:
- dumbo!user ----> user@dumbo.uucp
- user@dumbo.uucp ----> user@dumbo.uucp
- netcom!user ----> user@netcom.uucp
- user@netcom.uucp ----> user@netcom.uucp
- user@netcom ----> user@netcom
- netcom!uucphost!user ----> uucphost!user@netcom.uucp
- uucphost!user ----> user@uucphost.uucp
- user@anything.dom ----> user@anything.dom
-
- `To' address transformations for mailer dumbuucp:
- dumbo!user ----> dumbo!user
- user@dumbo.uucp ----> dumbo!user
- netcom!user ----> netcom!user
- user@netcom.uucp ----> netcom!user
- user@netcom ----> netcom!user
- netcom!uucphost!user ----> netcom!uucphost!user
- uucphost!user ----> uucphost!user
- user@anything.dom ----> anything.dom!user
-
- `From' address transformations for mailer smartuucp:
- dumbo!user ----> user@dumbo.uucp
- user@dumbo.uucp ----> user@dumbo.uucp
- netcom!user ----> user@netcom.uucp
- user@netcom.uucp ----> user@netcom.uucp
- user@netcom ----> user@netcom
- netcom!uucphost!user ----> uucphost!user@netcom.uucp
- uucphost!user ----> user@uucphost.uucp
- user@anything.dom ----> user@anything.dom
-
- `From' address transformations for mailer dumbuucp:
- dumbo!user ----> widget!dumbo!user
- user@dumbo.uucp ----> widget!dumbo!user
- netcom!user ----> widget!netcom!user
- user@netcom.uucp ----> widget!netcom!user
- user@netcom ----> widget!netcom!user
- netcom!uucphost!user ----> widget!netcom!uucphost!user
- uucphost!user ----> widget!uucphost!user
- user@anything.dom ----> widget!anything.dom!user
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