Hello!

How does one set "MaxForwardEntries"? I came across it in receipent.c
and saw it in readcf.c which led me to think that it can be set in some
..mc and consequently .cf.

My guess is that the purpose of it is to limit the length of an include
file?

I've Google'd for it and found only snippets of receipient.c. Couldn't
find anything in ../doc/op/ nor ../cf/README.

Thanks.

N.

In article <ehfem10nr9@news2.newsguy.com> No One <noone@invalid.add> writes:
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>How does one set "MaxForwardEntries"? I came across it in receipent.c
>and saw it in readcf.c which led me to think that it can be set in some
>.mc and consequently .cf.

Yes, and looking around in readcf.c should tell you that a) it's just
another option, i.e. it's set with a

O MaxForwardEntries=NNN

line in sendmail.cf (which you can put in a LOCAL_CONFIG section in your
..mc file), and b) the code to pick it up from there only gets compiled
in if _FFR_MAX_FORWARD_ENTRIES is #defined (to something non-zero) at
compile time. If you grep for that symbol you'll however also find this
in conf.c:

#if _FFR_MAX_FORWARD_ENTRIES
/* Try to limit number of .forward entries */
/* (doesn't work) */
/* Randall S. Winchester of the University of Maryland */
"_FFR_MAX_FORWARD_ENTRIES",
#endif /* _FFR_MAX_FORWARD_ENTRIES */

- which is a bit disappointing if you want to use it, I guess. But
that's the way things are with this For Future Release stuff, it may or
may not work - at least in this case there is some info about it.
Digging around a bit in old sources reveals that this particular FFR has
been around since at least 8.10.0, which is furhter indication that it's
broken and non-trivial to fix (in some cases features are FFRs just
because they are "on hold" for the next major release, but work just
fine).

>My guess is that the purpose of it is to limit the length of an include
>file?

Seems so, also .forward file I guess.

>I've Google'd for it and found only snippets of receipient.c. Couldn't
>find anything in ../doc/op/ nor ../cf/README.

Since it doesn't formally exist, it isn't documented, and finding info
elsewhere will be difficult.

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org