Re: SRS sendmail integration

Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Mark wrote:
>
>> Good question. ;) Seriously, though, as I suspected, m4 does not
>> provide such fine-grained control. I asked, to be sure, and got word
>> from Claus Assman today, saying this is, indeed, not possible (if
>> proto.m4 does does provide the hook either; but editing proto.m4
>> leaves us exactly where editing sendmail.cf leaves us). He said that
>> when he himself was faced with such a situation, that he just uses a
>> patch file against the newly created cf.
>
> I fixed the EnvFromSMTP - and I'm not even an m4 expert! m4 uses
> redirections, so I changed pysrs.m4 like this:

Brilliant work! :)

> This can be fixed by providing a feature which does
>
> LOCAL_RULESET_0
> R$* $: $>ReverseSrs $1
>
> and must come before redirect.

Yes, I figured out the LOCAL_RULESET_0 too -- a very fortunate hook (one
that exists for ruleset 1, 2, and 3 too). I am impressed you solved the
EnvFromSMTP thingy. With your permission, I'd like to create an m4 of my
own, including your trick (for which I will accredite you, of course).

You did good! :)

- Mark

        System Administrator Asarian-host.org

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