Patch to vrfy to issue ETRN command for sendmail 8.8

Robert Harker <harker@harker.com> Tue, 17 September 1996 20:40 UTC

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Cc: e07@nikhef.nl, jack@wildbear.on.ca
Subject: Patch to vrfy to issue ETRN command for sendmail 8.8
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In working on updating my "Managing Internet Mail, Setting Up and Trouble
Shooting sendmail and DNS" seminar for sendmail 8.8, I have been experimenting
with the new ETRN command to flush a remote queue for this host.

Sendmail 8.8 supports the ETRN command, but gives you no way to execute it
on a SMTP client host.  To solve this problem I have added a -T flag to Eric
Wassenaar's <e07@nikhef.nl> stand alone vrfy command to support the ETRN
command.  From the changes I made in the vrfy man page:

	vrfy(1) ETRN MODE
	If the -T option is specified, the program enters a special ETRN mode.
	The required parameter is an SMTP server host which the ETRN request
	will be sent to.  If the SMTP server supports the ETRN request defined
	in RFC 1985, then the ETRN command will be sent with the parameter of
	the hostname of the local host.

	If an optional domain parameter is supplied, then this domain name
	will be sent as the parameter to the ETRN command.

	Currently sendmail 8.8 supports the ETRN command

The patch is available from:
	ftp://ftp.harker.com/pub/sendmail/vrfy/vrfy.etrn.patch
vrfy is available from the same location or:
	ftp://ftpnikhef.nl/pub/network/vrfy.tar.Z
Visit my web page for more information:
	http://www.harker.com/sendmail/sendmail-ref.html
This page also contains HTML versions of the sendmail 8.8 documentation.

Hope people find this useful

RLH

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