On Oct 1, 2014 at 15:29 -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: =>On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:25:38 -0400, Ricardo Stella said: => =>> Recompile sendmail? Haven't done that in ages to be honest... I use stock =>> RHEL 6. Can't this be done via m4? => =>No, because it isn't a config file change, it's a source file change. => =>And no, you don't want to do it in the .cf file, because the .cf parser is an =>evil beast that looks the way it does because Eric Allman originally designed =>it so it could be quickly interpreted on a Vax 750 some 3 decades ago. As a =>result, its handling of $+ and $* and all the rest is almost, but not quite, =>what you need here. You're welcome to try to hack up rulesets SParse1 and =>Slocaladdr to do what's needed. It *will* require at least one bottle of =>bourbon or similar. It may look like it's almost the same as plussed user =>addresses, except Ruleset 5 does +-handling *after* aliases have been expanded, =>and this needs to happen *before* aliases expand. The other problem is that + =>addressing you know that you have user+extra@address, while for this, the =>parse is ambiguous in the case of a list the name has a hyphen in it. => =>(What, you don't think we considered doing it in m4 before resorting to =>carrying a source patch around for the last 2 decades? And no, it will never =>go into Sendmail - I personally discussed that with Eric Allman and Claus =>Assman over dinner many moons ago, and there's no way to do the patch in =>a way that's distro-safe to enable, so those who need it would have to =>rebuild their Sendmail package *anyhow*.) And the above makes me what to raise the question again on why LISTSERV can't be changed? See my post on 17-May-2007 to this list on with a subject of "How to put a LISTSERV box behind an authoritative gateway?" (archived at <http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-peach.exe?A1=ind0705&L=lstsrv-l#9>) A similar question/issue was raised later that year by Paul Russell at ND. Then in 10-Jun-2008, Valdis Kletnieks posted almost the exact same as he just did above. See <http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-peach.exe?A2=ind0806&L=lstsrv-l&F=&S=&P=11215> The the department mentioned is no longer running LISTSERV (or any MLM) so we don't have a need for this anymore. I just lurk on the list. :) -- *********************************************************************** Derek Diget Office of Information Technology Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo Michigan USA - www.wmich.edu/ *********************************************************************** ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1