*A considerable part of this work
was done while under the employ
of the INGRES Project
at the University of California at Berkeley
and at Britton Lee.
[1]except when mailing to a file,
when
sendmail
does the delivery directly.
[2]Obviously, if the site giving the error is not the originating
site, the only reasonable option is to mail back to the sender.
Also, there are many more error disposition options,
but they only effect the error message -- the
``return to sender''
function is always handled in one of these two ways.
[3]Disclaimer: Some special processing is done
after rewriting local names; see below.
[4]Dynamic configuration tables are currently being considered
for MMDF;
allowing the installer to select either compiled
or dynamic tables.
[5]The MMDF equivalent of a
sendmail
``mailer.''
[6]This is similar to the NBS standard.