sendmail rules to protect internal aliases

[Gerry Doris]

>
> We have a whole bunch of aliases ending in "-all" (and sub-aliases
> ending in "-all-0" to "-all-9" which aren't accessible from the outside.
> As an example, here's an extract from one of my sendmail.mc files.
>
> # This defines the regular expression that we will match against
> KIsEcsList2 regex -a at MATCH ^.*-all(-[0-9])?$
>
> LOCAL_RULESETS
> SLocal_check_rcpt
> R$*                     $: $>3 $1               Focus on host
> R$*                     $: $>"QualifyDomain" $1 Make fully-qualified R$*
> <@ $* $m. > $*      $1 <@ *LOCAL* >         Is recipient an ECS address?
> R$* <@ *LOCAL* > $*     $: $(IsEcsList2 $1 $) <@ *LOCAL* > $2   ECS
> list? R at MATCH <@ *LOCAL* > $* $#error $@ 5.1.2 $: Please contact ECS
> Help Desk
> That should do the trick for you. Don't forget to separate the fields of
> each line with tab characters, not spaces.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science Tel.
> 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

Julian, did you really mean that you have the above rules in the
sendmail.mc file or are they actually in the sendmail.cf file?  I didn't
think you could put stuff like this in the sendmail.mc file and have it
still compile.

Gerry
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