Original question:
>Could someone tell me how Sun for example rewrites the sender field within
>sendmail to be an alias.
Thanks to all the folks that responded.
The best response came from Sun:
> Jeff,
>
> I don't know if you received an answer for this one or not.
> The trick is in the reverse aliases in sendmail.cf file.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Steven Ho
> yjho@corp.sun.com
> 415-336-3364
>
>
> ----- Begin Included Message -----
>
>
> How to do reverse aliases
> >From sendmail.main.cf:
>
> # map containing the inverse of mail.aliases
> DZmail.byaddr
>
> S22
> R$*<@LOCAL>$* $:$1
> R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases
> R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok
> R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain
> R$+ $@$1<@$m> tack on our domain
>
>
> myhost #[36] ypmatch owner-foo aliases
> uucp@testhost
> myhost #[37] sendmail -C/etc/sendmail.ddn.cf -bt -d21.12
> Version 4.1
> ADDRESS TEST MODE
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
> > 22,4 uucp@testhost
> rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "uucp" "@" "testhost"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $* "<" $+ ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "@" $+ "," $+ ":" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "@" $+ ":" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ ":" $* ";" "@" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "@" $+
> -----rule matches: $: $1 "<" "@" $2 ">"
> rewritten as: "uucp" "<" "@" "testhost" ">"
> -----trying rule: $+ "<" $+ "@" $+ ">"
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "<" "@" $+ ">"
> -----rule matches: $@ $> "6" $1 "<" "@" $2 ">"
> -----callsubr 6
> rewrite: ruleset 6 input: "uucp" "<" "@" "testhost" ">"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" "@" $* $=m ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: "uucp" "<" "@" "testhost" ">"
> rewritten as: "uucp" "<" "@" "testhost" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "uucp" "<" "@" "testhost" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 22 input: "uucp" "<" "@" "testhost" ">"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $- "<" "@" $- ">"
> -----rule matches: $: $> "3" ${ "Z" $1 "@" $2 ${
> -----callsubr 3
> rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "owner-foo"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $* "<" $+ ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "@" $+ "," $+ ":" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "@" $+ ":" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ ":" $* ";" "@" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "@" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "<" $+ "@" $+ ">"
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "<" "@" $+ ">"
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $- "!" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $- "." $+ "!" $+
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "%" $+
> ----- rule fails
> rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "owner-foo"
> rewritten as: "owner-foo"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" "@" $+ "." $* ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+ "<" "@" $+ ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+
> -----rule matches: $@ $1 "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> rewritten as: "owner-foo" "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 22 returns: "owner-foo" "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 4 input: "owner-foo" "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> -----trying rule: $+ "<" "@" $+ "." "uucp" ">"
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $+
> -----rule matches: $: $> "9" $1
> -----callsubr 9
> rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "owner-foo" "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> -----trying rule: $=w "!" "@"
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "@"
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: $* "<" $* "LOCAL" ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "<" "@" $+ ">" $* ":" $+ ":" $+
> ----- rule fails
> rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "owner-foo" "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> rewritten as: "owner-foo" "<" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com" ">"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" $+ ">" $*
> -----rule matches: $1 $2 $3
> rewritten as: "owner-foo" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com"
> -----trying rule: $* "<" $+ ">" $*
> ----- rule fails
> -----trying rule: "myhost" "!" $- "!" $*
> ----- rule fails
> rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: "owner-foo" "@" "sub" "." "sun" "." "com"
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