sendmail, 4th Edition

Rule Set Numbers

Prior to V8.7 sendmail, rule sets could be identified only by numbers. When a rule set is declared with an integer, that integer is taken to be the numeric identity of the rule set:

S#

Here, # is an integer such as 23. If the # is greater than 100^[260] (the maximum number of numbered rule sets allowed), or is negative, sendmail prints and logs the following error:

configfile: line number: bad ruleset # ( maximum  max)

and each rule following that bad rule set declaration will produce the following error:

configfile: line number:  missing valid ruleset for "Rrule shown here"

^{[260] *} This limit is defined as one-half of MAXRWSETS, which is defined as 200 in sendmail/conf.h.