david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) (03/09/91)
There ought be a manual entitled 'Systems Admin For Those Who Are Better Off
Eating Pizza'...
I have just installed SMAIL 3.19 on my 386 box-- because my old mailer has
about as much brains as MS-DOS. But I have two problems.
My From paths are a bit wrong, or at least lacking. My machine is
kessner.denver.co.us, but it is one hop away from the Internet (I UUCP with
csn.org), FYI. The here are a few From's:
A message mailed to csn!cyan.csn.org!dcm had
From: kessner!david@csn.org (David Kessner)
Shouldent this say 'david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner)' ? Despite
the fact that there is a mix of @'s and !'s in that...
Another message was sent to dbrown@ucsd. It got there, but this is
part of his reply (between the '---------------'s)...
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You're ``smart'' mailer gave me a broken return address. This
is the addfress it said to reply to:
ogicse!unmvax!ncar.UCAR.EDU!scicom!bilanc!csn!kessner!david@ucsd.edu
I replied and it bounced somewhere (I'll give you it below.)
Dave
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 10:01:41 -0800
> From: unmvax!MAILER-DAEMON@ucsd.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> To: dbrown@ece.UCSD.EDU
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >>> RCPT To:<david%kessner%csn%bilanc%scicom@ncar.UCAR.EDU>
> <<< 550 <david%kessner%csn%bilanc%scicom@ncar.UCAR.EDU>... User unknown
> 550 ncar.UCAR.EDU!david%kessner%csn%bilanc%scicom... User unknown
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Received: from ogicse.UUCP by unmvax.cs.unm.edu (5.61/3.3) with UUCP
> id <AA28535@unmvax.cs.unm.edu>; Fri, 8 Mar 91 10:01:41 -0800
> Received: from ucsd.edu by cse.ogi.edu with SMTP
> (5.61+eap+OGI_1.1.named/IDA-1.2.8+OGI_1.12) id AA01762; Fri, 8 Mar 91 09
:34:39 -0800
> Received: from zemeckis.ucsd.edu by ucsd.edu; id AA04457
> sendmail 5.64/UCSD-2.1-sun via SMTP
> Fri, 8 Mar 91 09:34:36 -0800 for unmvax!ncar.UCAR.EDU!scicom!bilanc!csn!
kessner!david@cse.ogi.edu
> Received: by zemeckis.ucsd.edu (4.0/UCSDPSEUDO.2)
> id AA04640 for ogicse!unmvax!ncar.UCAR.EDU!scicom!bilanc!csn!kessner!dav
id@ucsd.edu; Fri, 8 Mar 91 09:31:37 PST
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 09:31:37 PST
> From: ece.UCSD.EDU!dbrown@ogicse.UUCP (David Brown)
> Message-Id: <9103081731.AA04640@zemeckis.ucsd.edu>
> To: ncar.UCAR.EDU!david%kessner%csn%bilanc%scicom@ogicse.UUCP
> Subject: Re: Test... Really..
>
> Yeah, I got it. Quite a return path!
>
> Dave
>
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Sorry for the length of this, but I didnt want to leave anything out that
might be important.
My SMAIL is configured with all default values (but with updated mail maps).
So what is wrong? I imagin that it is just a simple line in one of the config
files-- but the documentation is confusing for someone who isnt familiar with
sys admin of a UNIX machine.
Thanks in advance. - David K
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This is my system so I can say any damn thing I want! | } while( jones);tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) (03/10/91)
In article <1991Mar9.063545.20567@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) writes: >My From paths are a bit wrong, or at least lacking. My machine is >kessner.denver.co.us, but it is one hop away from the Internet (I UUCP with >csn.org), FYI. The here are a few From's: > > A message mailed to csn!cyan.csn.org!dcm had > From: kessner!david@csn.org (David Kessner) This From: line was not generated by Smail running on kessner, it was generated by the sendmail running on csn. Assuming that you set your hostnames correctly, the From: line delivered from your site to csn should have been: From: david@kessner.denver.co.us Existing sendmail configurations often do bad things with correct messages generated by UUCP sites. Nearly all of the sites that veritas talks to run sendmail, and as a result, it is rare for me to receive a message that contains any addresses which are simple domain addresses, despite the fact that I use an RFC-conformant mailer, and many of the users that I communicate with do as well. One last note: according to the rules of RFC822 and RFC976, the From: line that you mentioned should be replyable. -- tron |-<=>-| ARPAnet: veritas!tron@apple.com tron@veritas.com UUCPnet: {amdahl,apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron