keith@earth.ox.ac.uk (Keith Refson) (06/11/91)
I have been unsuccessfully trying to send messages to the SPAN network via uk.ac.span-relay. The problem (after fixing a bug the unix-niftp software which prevented us talking to it at all) is that the relay requires addresses in VMSese "site::user"@uk.ac.span-relay. Sendmail is stripping the quotation marks from the `user' which the relay requires to be quoted. Thus all mail is bounced. What is peculiar is that the quotation marks are retained in the "To:" field, but stripped from the JNT header. Is there any way to get these quotation marks through sendmail? Or should I find another route to SPAN? Any suggestions will be gratefully received! Keith Refson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Keith Refson |ROYAL MAIL: | |-----------------------------------------| Department of Earth Sciences | | JANET : keith@uk.ac.ox.earth | Parks Road | | INTERNET: keith@earth.ox.ac.uk | Oxford OX1 3PR | | BITNET : keith%uk.ac.ox.earth@ukacrl | UK | | UUCP : K.Refson@ed.uucp |PHONE : +44 865 272026/272016 | | : keith%uk.ac.ox.earth@ukc.uucp |FAX : +44 865 272072 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (06/12/91)
In article <7024.9106110946@rahman.earth.ox.ac.uk> keith@earth.ox.ac.uk (Keith Refson) writes: > >"site::user"@uk.ac.span-relay. > >Sendmail is stripping the quotation marks from the `user' Stripping of quotes is determined by the 's' flag on the mailer definition. Normally this is needed on the local mailer and the prog mailer, but not on any other mailer. Unfortunately some people mistakenly put an 's' flag on other mailers. In the sample .cf files distributed by Berkeley, the 's' flag appears only in the local and prog mailers. Regrettably, 'sendmail.main.cf' distributed by Sun has the 's' flag set in ALL MAILERS. Unfortunately, fixing the flags in your own mailer definitions may not solve your problem. They will need to be fixed in all systems your message traverses. >which the relay requires to be quoted. Thus all mail is bounced. What is >peculiar is that the quotation marks are retained in the "To:" field, but >stripped from the JNT header. This is because the 's' flag only appears to the actual (i.e. envelope) recipient addresses, and not to any addresses on the headers. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
n.margetic@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic) (06/13/91)
In <7024.9106110946@rahman.earth.ox.ac.uk> keith@earth.ox.ac.uk (Keith Refson) writes: >I have been unsuccessfully trying to send messages to the SPAN network >via uk.ac.span-relay. The problem (after fixing a bug the unix-niftp >software which prevented us talking to it at all) is that the relay >requires addresses in VMSese >"site::user"@uk.ac.span-relay. >Sendmail is stripping the quotation marks from the `user' >which the relay requires to be quoted. Thus all mail is bounced. What is >peculiar is that the quotation marks are retained in the "To:" field, but >stripped from the JNT header. >Is there any way to get these quotation marks through sendmail? Or >should I find another route to SPAN? Any suggestions will be >gratefully received! > Keith Refson **** Yup, I ran into the same problem a year ago. The only thing that worked for me was the Internet->SPAN gateway in States - a machine at NASA centre. Unfortunately, at the moment, I can't remember the address of this particular machine, but it was listed in the E-Mail Guide for Janet available by NIFTP from (I belive EARN-Relay). Hope this helps. --Nino -- Janet: nino@uk.ac.ucl.sm.mph \ Nino Margetic Earn/Bitnet: nino@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk \ Dept. of Medical Physics Internet: nino%mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk\ University College London Bang-path: ....!mcvax!ukc!ucl-mph!nino \ Tel:+44-71-380-9300/x5313
rdunbar@tonka.gsfc.nasa.gov (Richard Dunbar) (06/19/91)
>**** Yup, I ran into the same problem a year ago. The only thing that >worked for me was the Internet->SPAN gateway in States - a machine at >NASA centre. Unfortunately, at the moment, I can't remember the address user@host.span.nasa.gov should reach most NSI-DECNET (SPAN changed names). nodes. --rick d. rdunbar@gsfc.nasa.gov