add dotted users

[unix-history] / usr / src / usr.sbin / sendmail / cf / README

diff --git a/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README b/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README
index b2cee59..4bfdfec 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README
+++ b/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
                Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
 
 
                Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
 

-               @(#)README      8.31 (Berkeley) %G%
+               @(#)README      8.32 (Berkeley) %G%

 
 
 This document describes the sendmail configuration files being used
 
 
 This document describes the sendmail configuration files being used


@@ -814,6 +814,37 @@ To build the internal form of the user databae, use:
        makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
 
 
        makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
 
 

++--------------------------------+
+| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
++--------------------------------+
+
+DOTTED_USER(name)
+       Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a
+       centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
+       root mail to a mail server.  In this case it might be
+       useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
+       of addresses with subtle differences.  You can do this
+       using dotted users.  For example, a client might include
+       the alias:
+
+               root:  root.client1@server
+
+       On the server, the mail configuration would include:
+
+               DOTTED_USER(root)
+
+       Aliases on the server that would match this address would
+       be "root.client", "root.*", and "root", tried in that
+       order.  You can specify multiple addresses either by
+       joining them in one DOTTTED_USER macro or by having
+       multiple macros:
+
+               DOTTED_USER(root)
+               DOTTED_USER(postmaster mailer-daemon)
+
+       defines three dotted users.
+
+

 +------------------+
 | FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
 +------------------+
 +------------------+
 | FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
 +------------------+


@@ -1198,7 +1229,7 @@ CLASSES
    A
    B
    C
    A
    B
    C

-   D
+   D   "dotted" users

    E   addresses that should not seem to come from $M
    F   hosts we forward for
    G
    E   addresses that should not seem to come from $M
    F   hosts we forward for
    G