lel@liuida.UUCP (06/10/87)
The IDA Sendmail Enhancement Kit was finally sent off to Rich Salz of comp.sources.unix today. He still has problems receiving sources for the newsgroup after his relocation, but I'm afraid I couldn't wait any longer. At the end of this week, I'm off for a new job in another country. I hope it won't take too long for the Kit to appear in the newsgroup. For those of you who have ARPANET access and don't want to wait, thanks to Dorab Patel of UCLA there is a copy on the host ulysses.cs.ucla.edu [128.97.2.19] in the file ~ftp/pub/ida.tar.Z available for anonymous FTP. If anyone is really desperate, I can probably send copy by mail too (330 Kbyte in 7 shars). But you will have to react quickly then... The Kit includes a set of source code modifications to the BSD 4.3 sendmail program (version 5.11). The changes will enable sendmail to have direct access to dbm(3) files, separate envelope/header rewriting rulesets, and multi-token class matches among other things. As a separate part of the Kit is the IDA Sendmail Master Configuration file and a sample setup used at the CIS Dept, U of Linkoping. The configuration file together with the supplied data files and utility programs, implement such nice features as pathalias based systems routing within sendmail, fully !-/@-translating rulesets, and generic local user addresses. The new sendmail functions are breifly listed below and further described in the accompanying paper, which in addition discusses electronic mail addressing in general and hybrid addresses in particular. Nameserver Default Argument Direct Access to Dbm(3) Files Batched SMTP Support Separate Envelope/Header Rewriting Rulesets Separate Local UUCP Host Name Return Path for UUCP Mailers UUCP Header Address Relativization Support for Multi-Token Matches Support for Embedded Subruleset Calls Elaborate Matching Algorithm for Unknown Local Recipients Support for Maryland's Mdbm Package Improved Test Mode Output Better To: and Cc: Headers of Returned Messages Queue Bug Fixed Shared Input SMTP Bug Tentatively Fixed Optional BSD 2.9 and 4.2 Compatibility Code & Miscellaneous Changes Enjoy! --Lennart (soon at Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, U.K.) -- Dept of Computer and Information Science, University of Linkoping, Sweden Internet: Lennart.Lovstrand@IDA.LiU.SE EAN/X.400: lel@ida.liu.sunet UUCP: {mcvax,munnari,seismo}!enea!liuida!lel EARN/BITNET: LEL@SELIUI51