(IPC) Mailer rulesets (How do they really work?)

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From: Doug Tiarks
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 20:09

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This may be old news, but ...

From what I've seen so far it appears that sendmail takes
the resulting address from ruleset 0 (mailer, host, address triple)
and passes it on to rulesets  2 -> mailer specific -> 4  before using
it in the address for the mailer. This is certainly not what the
Sendmail Installation Guide would have one believe. 

For the case of the IPC mailer the ruleset path  would look like:

from   -> 3  -> 0 -> address from  -> 2 -> mailer -> 4  -> SMTP RCPT TO:
address		     mailer, host,         specific	   command
		     address triple 


Can anyone confirm/refute/clarify this?

Is this why all of the berkeley supplied .cf files run the address through
ruleset 3 in the IPC mailer specific rulsets?

And don't do anything in rulesets 1 and 2 ??


	Doug Tiarks
	UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Div.

	Internet: doug@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
	UUCP: {uwvax, uwmacc}!uwmcsd1!doug
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	Doug Tiarks
	UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Div.

	Internet: doug@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
	UUCP: {uwvax, uwmacc}!uwmcsd1!doug

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Subject: (IPC) Mailer rulesets (How do they really work?)
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