NAHAJ@cc.utah.edu (John Halleck) (06/26/90)
When looking at a standard sendmail.cf file in common use, a number of questions occur to me. I assume that the answers are "historical", but I don't seem to know the history. Can someone answer the following for me: Why does the delimiter macro ( Do.:%@!^=/[] ) NOT include comma, left angle bracket, or right angle bracket? What address formats use = or / for anything? (Since I don't see rules that use them.) - John Halleck nahaj@cc.utah.edu nahaj@utahcca.bitnet
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (06/29/90)
In <73125@cc.utah.edu> NAHAJ@cc.utah.edu (John Halleck) writes: >Why does the delimiter macro ( Do.:%@!^=/[] ) NOT include comma, left >angle bracket, or right angle bracket? The delimiter character indicates what separates tokens within an address. Comma and <> are used to indicate addresses in the header. >What address formats use = or / for anything? (Since I don't see rules >that use them.) Nothing that anyone really cares about any more, except perhaps the /mail filesystem. :-) Here is what I've been using: ## Token delimeters -- word separators in the rewrite rules below. Do.:%@![] And I'm tempted to follow the Host Requirements RFC very strictly and drop : and source routes altogether... /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.