sgs@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Stuart Szabo) (03/08/91)
I am looking for some documentation on how to interpret what is being returned by 'sendmail -bt -Csendmail.cf' In particular, which rulesets should I be testing. What I'm trying to do is to fix a problem with incoming mail not being resolved correctly. How can I work out which rulesets are being used on incoming mail? Also are there any books or documentation available on sendmail. I am running SCO xenix and using the sendmail supplied with the SCO tcp/ip package. Thanks, Stuart Szabo sgs@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au
wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler) (03/12/91)
sgs@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Stuart Szabo) writes: > I am looking for some documentation on how to interpret what is >being returned by 'sendmail -bt -Csendmail.cf' stuart, you'll also want to add a -d21.n (1 < n < 99) flag. as i recall, n==13 was good for seeing which rules were succeeding. experiment. you'll want a copy of the sendmail installation and operation guide. a hard copy is in the usenix unix system manager's manual. the following diagram, from this paper describes the rulesets that sendmail applies to messages. --> 0 -> resolved address / / /-> 1 -> S -\ addr -> D- --> 4 -> msg \-> 2 -> R -/ D - sender domain addition S - mailer-specific sender rewriting R - mailer-specific recipient rewriting for example, to test what your outgoing address might look like, you could run sendmail -bt -d21.5 and assume the sender rule for the tcp mailer is 17: 1,17,4 wohler sendmail will run the address through ruleset three first. hope this helps. --bw wohler@sap-ag.de