lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (08/20/87)
Hi there! I am pleading for some assistance here <grin>. I have noticed lots of msgs about this tweak and that tweak to sendmail.cf files. I really dont understand why there isnt an 'official' set of address rule conversions... I understand why a site might have to mess with the names of commands to run, parms to provide, etc. Anyways, at work we are using Ultrix 1.2. We appear to be getting our mail incoming and outgoing now, but our From: line is showing our home machine name twice in the header: From: chemabs!chemabs!hall for example. We have tried to modify the place where the ruleset states that it is adding the host name - when we delete the prepending of the host define ($U) we get NO host name prepended. Then we tried to modify ruleset 4 - the final frontier - er... I mean the final output processing.; I tried a couple of rule transforms that would identify the double name (which DOES exist at that point) but for some reason couldnt get it to work. I had some extensive hand written notes on sendmail which I took at the DECUS sendmail.god session - Mr Avolio did such a fantastic job at that se session that the cleaning crew at the hotel STOLE my notes! Needless to say I was stunned. Anyways, now I am attempting to interpret the Ultrix doc and the slides from the session and am getting no where. Any ideas out there? We have only changed a couple of lines (replaced the default system name with our outside known name - a constant string. Feel free to let me know if I have goofed somewhere obvious. -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 cbosgd!n8emr!lwv HAM/SWL BBS (HBBS) 614-457-4227.. 300/1200 bps We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.
diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant) (08/22/87)
> We appear to be getting our mail incoming and outgoing now, but > our From: line is showing our home machine name twice in the header: > > From: chemabs!chemabs!hall > > for example. We have tried to modify the place where the ruleset states > that it is adding the host name - when we delete the prepending of the > host define ($U) we get NO host name prepended. Then we tried to modify > ruleset 4 - the final frontier - er... I mean the final output processing.; > I tried a couple of rule transforms that would identify the double name > (which DOES exist at that point) but for some reason couldnt get it to work. Sometimes rules get called more than once, which is probably the source of your problem. Where you find the rule that prepends the $U, change the ruleset to only do that only if it isn't already there. You could do that by adding a rule before the one that removes your host name if it is there, and then if the rule is called twice, it would just get removed and added again. John Diamant TSBU UUCP: {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant Hewlett Packard Co. ARPA Internet: diamant%hpfclp@hplabs.HP.COM Fort Collins, CO