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SENDMAIL -- An Internetwork Mail Router
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Eric Allman
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Britton-Lee, Inc.
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Routing mail through a heterogenous internet presents many new
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problems. Among the worst of these is that of address mapping.
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Historically, this has been handled on an ad hoc basis. However,
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this approach has become unmanageable as internets grow.
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Sendmail acts a unified "post office" to which all mail can be
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submitted. Address interpretation is controlled by a production
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system, which can parse both old and new format addresses. The
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new format is "domain-based", a flexible technique that can
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handle many common situations. Sendmail is not intended to perform
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user interface functions.
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Sendmail will replace delivermail in the Berkeley 4.2 distribution.
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Several major hosts are now or will soon be running sendmail.
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This change will affect any users that route mail through a sendmail
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gateway. The changes that will be user visible will be discussed.
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