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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: '=' addresses for IDA sendmail?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.040443.1940@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <Bun0qB.34J@irvine.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:04:43 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <Bun0qB.34J@irvine.com> jsweet@irvine.com (Jerry Sweet) writes:
- >
- >MMDF has a facility whereby an address of the form "<user>=<whatever>"
- >gets delivered to <user>, and the entire "<user>=<whatever>" address
- >is still provided in the message envelope destination address.
-
- >So...has anyone implemented this "=" address facility as an IDA
- >sendmail ruleset?
-
- The real problem with this is in the delivery agent. For the standard
- /bin/mail delivery agent, the message envelope is the name of the
- mailbox. You would need a delivery agent which allowed passing the
- recipient name and the envelope as two separate pieces of information.
- But then sendmail doesn't allow you to pass both to the mailer.
-
- You could perhaps do something like this if you use a combination of
- Chip Salzenberg's deliver package and slocal (comes with mh) as a delivery
- agent. One way would be to deliver such addresses to the 'deliver'
- mailer from with the full 'user=whatever' envelope, and have the system
- deliver shell script echo the pipeline
-
- user|/usr/local/lib/mh/slocal user user=whatever $SENDER
-
- and then slocal can look at the 'user=whatever' string to decide how
- to dispose of the message. It is all probably not worth the effort.
-
-