mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) (03/08/89)
In comp.mail.misc, alan l wendt writes: >And the rest of the stuff wants to get put in /usr/spool/mail/wendt. >The sensible thing to do with the rest of the stuff is to pipe >it back into sendmail, with a flag saying not to do forwarding, >but I can't find such a flag on sendmail. Suggestions anyone? [ Why was this in comp.emacs? ] [ I've directed followups to comp.mail.sendmail. ] My sendmail man page (SunOS 4.0) describes a -n flag that means "don't do aliasing" -- I'm not sure whether aliasing is construed to include per-user forwarding, but I think I recall from the sendmail source that they're handled in the same place, so maybe. You might also be able to quote the recipient name by preceding it with a backslash. At least, if sendmail finds a name of the form '\name' in a .forward file, it doesn't try to reforward the message. Alternatively, instead of handing the stuff back to sendmail, you could just feed it to /bin/mail, which will deliver it to your mailbox. I wrote a rule-based pattern matcher for dispatching mail based on ed-style regular expressions in its headers, and it uses this technique to effect final delivery for sites that use the sendmail / /bin/mail combination. In fact it derives the sender's name from the message and then uses "/bin/mail -r <sender> -d <recipient>" to force the "From " lines to contain the right name. -- Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment mlandau@bbn.com in all this blood and thunder
george@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Roy George) (04/08/89)
As being relatively new to Sendmail, I would really appreciate it if some
one could send me information about any/all of the following
What are the structures that Sendmail uses for header information?
Where can I find documentation on the actual procedures and structures
that sendmail uses when it hands over mail for propagation?(if in public
domain the address from where it can be obtained)
Thanks in advance,
Roy George
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