fmbutt@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Farooq Butt) (11/24/89)
Hi there net-oids:
Here is an interesting problem I ran into with the current rrn (patchlevel
40). Whenever anyone submitted a followup article, rrn would say that
the "reply-to" field in the ".rnhead" file was "user@foo.UUCP" for a
user who REALLY was "user@foo.sw.stratus.com" (i.e. it completely
IGNORED my domain (sw.stratus.com) and claimed that ".UUCP" was the
only domain it recognized. After some searching, I isolated the
problem to the following line in "common.h" in the rrn distribution.
I saw that the "Relpy-To" path was tacking on ".UUCP" to all hostids.
Exhibit A:
# define NEWSHEADER "Newsgroups: %(%F=^$?%C:%F)\nSubject: %(%S=^$?%\"\n\nSubject: \":Re: %S)\nSummary: \nExpires: \n%(%R=^$?:References: %R\n)Sender: \nReply-To: %L@%H.UUCP (%N)\nFollowup-To: \nDistribution: %(%i=^$?%\"Distribution: \":%D)\nOrganization: %o\nKeywords: %[keywords]\n\n" COMMMENTED OUT
(The "Reply-To" field is the one I am interested in...)
I promptly changed the above to:
#define THEDOMAIN %{RRNDOMAIN-sw.stratus.com}
...some lines deleted...
# define NEWSHEADER "Newsgroups: %(%F=^$?%C:%F)\nSubject: %(%S=^$?%\"\n\nSubject: \":Re: %S)\nSummary: \nExpires: \n%(%R=^$?:References: %R\n)Sender: \nReply-To: %L@%H.%{RRNDOMAIN-sw.stratus.com} (%N)\nFollowup-To: \nDistribution: %(%i=^$?%\"Distribution: \":%D)\nOrganization: %o\nKeywords: %[keywords]\n\n"
At this point all I had to do was define my domain in the global
variable "RRNDOMAIN" (unless I liked the default of "sw.stratus.com").
Here are my questions:
1. Is this a real, honest-to-God bug or a feature ?
2. Has this been fixed already ? If not what have other people using
domain-style addresses been doing ? (I assume that for a guy
called "joe@ucbvax.ucb.edu" rrn would generate a Reply-To field
saying joe@ucbvax.UUCP)
3. If this is bug how should I enter it ?
4. Is rrn basically very buggy or am I dreaming (I got it to dump core
just yesterday) ?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks,
Farooq Butt
fmbutt@lectroid.sw.stratus.com