ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com (Ryan Waldron) (06/22/91)
I am trying to integrate a new subdomain into our mail system here at Intergraph, and am having a strange problem. When mail gets sent from a Sun installation in Boulder to our main mailhub here in Huntsville (an Intergraph 6505), the From: address gets a ^P appended to it betwixt here and there, so that the sendmail process on the mailhub does not recognize the address, and proceeds to try to fully qualify it, leaving us with user@host.dazixco.ingr.com^P.ingr.com , which is hardly useful. Does anyone know where a spurious character like this can come from? There are no strangely embedded characters in the /etc/sendmail.cf file on the machine in Boulder, and it is rewriting the addresses correctly. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might find who's responsible for adding the ^P and how to stop it? It only appears to happen on the From: address; none of the other headers are so affected. -- Ryan Waldron ||| ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com ||| ...!uunet!ingr.com!waldronr "You read me Shakespeare on the Rolling Thames, That Old River Poet that never, ever ends. Our Thumping hearts hold the Ravens in, And keep the tower from tumbling." -KB
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (06/22/91)
In article <1991Jun21.214155.8143@infonode.ingr.com> ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com writes: >Intergraph 6505), the From: address gets a ^P appended to it betwixt here >and there, so that the sendmail process on the mailhub does not recognize >the address, and proceeds to try to fully qualify it, leaving us with > >user@host.dazixco.ingr.com^P.ingr.com > >, which is hardly useful. Does anyone know where a spurious character like >this can come from? There are no strangely embedded characters in the >/etc/sendmail.cf file on the machine in Boulder, and it is rewriting the >addresses correctly. But there are LOTs of special characters in your 'sendmail.cf'. Characters such as $+ or $- or $* or $: etc. These are all internally coded as single characters. Somewhere you have a rule with a misplaced operator. According to my sources, ^P is probably $* so you might look for a $* on the RHS of a rewrite rule somewhere. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com (Ryan Waldron) (06/24/91)
In article <1991Jun21.225332.12684@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: |> In article <1991Jun21.214155.8143@infonode.ingr.com> ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com writes: |> >this can come from? There are no strangely embedded characters in the |> >/etc/sendmail.cf file on the machine in Boulder, and it is rewriting the |> >addresses correctly. |> |> But there are LOTs of special characters in your 'sendmail.cf'. Characters |> such as $+ or $- or $* or $: etc. These are all internally coded as single |> characters. Somewhere you have a rule with a misplaced operator. According |> to my sources, ^P is probably $* so you might look for a $* on the RHS of |> a rewrite rule somewhere. Is this guy good, or what? It was just as he said, and I fixed it right up. Whew! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! -- Ryan Waldron ||| ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com ||| ...!uunet!ingr.com!waldronr "You read me Shakespeare on the Rolling Thames, That Old River Poet that never, ever ends. Our Thumping hearts hold the Ravens in, And keep the tower from tumbling." -KB