[comp.mail.uucp] Incorrect address on outgoing mail

adamm@necis.UUCP (Adam Moskowitz) (10/26/88)

We're having some problems with our outgoing mail and I'm hoping someone out
there in net.land has already solved them so I don't have to.

When I send mail, it's often addressed to several people, some of whom are on
a different systemt that the one I'm sending from. It gets to them fine, but
when they try to reply all is hosed because the addresses they receive are
wrong. To be more specfic: I say "mailx user1@host1, user2@host2, user3"
(it's implied that user3 and I are on the same system)(I also seem to get the
same results using elm). But when user1 gets the mail, the address for user3
still says "user3" and I claim it *should* say "user3@host3". Otherwise, how
is user1's mailer supposed to know where to send the reply?

We're using smail 2.5, supposedly updated on 15-Sep-87, on a System V box. I
believe the "stock" /bin/mail is now masquerading as /bin/lmail.

So, please email any possible solutions to the address shown below. If I'm
off my rocker or missing something, email that too. Thanx.
-- 
Adam S. Moskowitz	            ...!(backbone)!{necntc,encore}!necis!adamm
                                    adamm@necis.nec.com

     "Gonna die with a smile if it kills me!"  --  Jon Gailmore

kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (10/26/88)

There is an option in the mailer definition (capital C, I think) in
sendmail.cf that specifies that all incomplete addresses should be completed
with the originators host.  Check the "Sendmail Configuration and Operation
Guide".  I've had bad experiences with this option, when placed in the wrong
place, and even worse luck with it's not there.

The UCB Mail has proven to mangle addresses when replying to addresses that
don't specify any host or domain and the sender's address has a host AND
domain.  For example, replies to mail From:  joe@foo.bar.edu, To: spam, and
Cc: frank will mangle spam and frank to look like "edu:spam@bar" and
"edu:frank@bar".  Mush doesn't exhibit this behaviour.

	Patrick Wolfe  (pwolfe@kai.com, uunet!kailand!pwolfe)