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by **David D Kilz** » Fri, 28 Jul 1995 04:00:00

Quote:>I have read bits and pieces about the details of reverse aliasing lately.
>What is reverse aliasing. In the strictest sense of the word, It would seem
>you do reverse aliasing in the alias file?
>Enlighten me fellow dilberts..

It's like hostname masking, except for email addresses. You can do
things like mapping all outgoing email from ``root'' to appear to come
from ``postmaster'' (for whatever reason).

Or if you are really lazy, you can use it to remap a user's email
address to another address so they don't have to use a Reply-To field in
their email or a .forward file in their home directory.

I haven't found a practical use for it yet, but perhaps someone else
has. The /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file has a little more information about
rev-aliases if you've patched your system to include this feature.

Dave
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by **Martin Leese - O** » Fri, 28 Jul 1995 04:00:00

>> >I have read bits and pieces about the details of reverse aliasing lately.
>> >What is reverse aliasing. In the strictest sense of the word, It would seem
>> >you do reverse aliasing in the alias file?
>> >Enlighten me fellow dilberts..
...
>> I haven't found a practical use for it yet, but perhaps someone else
>> has. The /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file has a little more information about
>> rev-aliases if you've patched your system to include this feature.

A very useful use is to use it to convert outgoing addresses from the

This allows senders to better guess a recipients' address when they
only half remember it.

Regards,
Martin

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by **David D Kilz** » Sat, 29 Jul 1995 04:00:00

>>> >I have read bits and pieces about the details of reverse aliasing lately.
>>> >What is reverse aliasing. In the strictest sense of the word, It would seem
>>> >you do reverse aliasing in the alias file?
>>> >Enlighten me fellow dilberts..

>...
>>> I haven't found a practical use for it yet, but perhaps someone else
>>> has. The /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file has a little more information about
>>> rev-aliases if you've patched your system to include this feature.

>A very useful use is to use it to convert outgoing addresses from the

>This allows senders to better guess a recipients' address when they
>only half remember it.

Yeah, but then you have to alias everyone to Fname.Lname at your
sight--a job I have neither the time nor the desire to do. :^)

Dave
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David D. Kilzer \ ``My goal is to carry the Macintosh torch and

Computer Engineer 4 \ Guy Kawasaki
Iowa State University, Ames / Newly-appointed Apple Fellow

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what is rev aliasing

what is rev aliasing