the qf file

[hobbit () avian org (*Hobbit*)]

I messed with this a little too -- it appears that you have to get a message
queued for retry later.  Lots of sites run with Odbackground in their .cf
files and Sendmail will try to fire off a delivery right then and there,
using the "ctladdr" it got from the current SMTP session.  If you can get a
message to queue, though, possibly by CCing to a site that's down, and jam
the extra "Croot" or "Cdaemon" or whatever line into the queue file, Sendmail
will read and believe this during the next queue run, and turn on stuff like
file and program delivery.  Euugh.

I think that's how it works, anyway.  There's an awful lot of hairy code
involved in determining the "ctladdr" and whether or not file-syntax or
pipe-syntax is legal at what stages, and I don't claim to really understand
it.  Which is why I tried to jack in fixes at a lower, simpler level.  Hmm,
this has got me thinking about more fixes already...

I see the SMAP aficionados jumping up and down in the back.  Has anyone tried
jamming this kind of stuff through SMAP yet?  I would readily believe that it's
possible.

_H*