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Re: :include: facility in aliases file

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From: Bruce Lilly
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:29
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In article <C14GsI.BMs@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>,
 posted to comp.mail.sendmail,
 sammut@durian.citr.uq.oz.au (David Sammut) wrote:
>
>Has anyone successfully used this feature?
>
>(I am running sendmail 5.65c with IDA extensions on a DECstation 5000/240
>running ULTRIX 4.2A)

Yes. Sometime between 5.61 and 5.65c it stopped working with (essentially)
the same configuation file. It can be made to work with 5.65c, but you have
to make sure of the following in your configuration file:

a)	ruleset 3 should pass :include: lines unchanged. Something like

	R:include:$+	$@:include:$1	# return :include: specifications

	near the beginning of ruleset 3 should do the trick. Depending on
	your ruleset 3, it might not be necessary.

b)	ruleset 0 must resolve to the local mailer, preferably without doing
	material damage to the include specification. Again, a single line
	like

	R:include:$+	$#local$@$::include:$1	# resolve :include: specifications to local mailer

	near the start of ruleset 0 should work.

Processing a test message with the -v and -d flags may be informative.

-- 
	Bruce Lilly		...uupsi!monymsys!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
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From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
Subject: Re: :include: facility in aliases file
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:29:54 GMT
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