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In article <237@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>In article <1410011@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>, diamant@hpfclp (John Diamant) writes:
>>Right.  The angle brackets are required for source routes.
>But most sendmail.cf files I have seen include something like:
>	R$*<$+>$*       $1$2$3
>It may be that the spec says angle brackets are required,
>but is that really the case?

The angle brackets you see inside sendmail rulesets are put there
to "focus" the address by the rules themselves.  This is not a
requirement but a convention.

The hard-wired address parsing logic that invokes the rules takes
care of the syntactic angle brackets -- the rules never see brackets
in their input.  Any comments associated with an address, ie
	Comm Ent <foo@bar>
or	foo@bar (Comm Ent)

are stripped off before calling the rules and added back to
what the rules return when they are done.  If you see something
like
	R$*<$*>$*	$2		basic RFC822 parsing
near the beginning of S3 it is a no-op.
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