alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dave Alden) (04/24/91)
Hello, I used to occasionally get the following error: Apr 23 17:13:14 triangle.mps.ohio-state.edu sendmail[5622]: AA05622: SYSERR: rewrite: cannot prescan canonical hostname: But over the last couple of weeks I've been getting it almost once/day. It only seems to happen when receiving mail from sites which have send out mail using a name which is actually a nickname (ie: math.harvard.edu). Is there some way to fix this? ...thnx, ...dave -- Dave Alden, System Programmer MaBellNet: (614) 292-4962 Department of Mathematics FaxNet: (614) 292-7174 The Ohio State University Internet: alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu 231 W 18th Avenue UUCP: ...!osu-cis!alden Columbus, OH USA 43210 BITNET: alden@ohstpy
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr23.222025.12890@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dave Alden) writes: > >Hello, > I used to occasionally get the following error: > >Apr 23 17:13:14 triangle.mps.ohio-state.edu sendmail[5622]: AA05622: SYSERR: >rewrite: cannot prescan canonical hostname: > >But over the last couple of weeks I've been getting it almost once/day. It >only seems to happen when receiving mail from sites which have send out mail >using a name which is actually a nickname (ie: math.harvard.edu). Is there >some way to fix this? Most likely there is a bug somewhere in 'sendmail.cf'. Try testing some of these hostnames by hand using 'sendmail -bt'. You will have to look through 'sendmail.cf' to find which ruleset might be involved, and then specifically test the address for that ruleset. Look for rules with the $[ ... $] operation in them. For example you might see something like: R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 The most likely cause is that you are off by one in your count of the $n variables on the right, or have something else slightly out of order. If, for example, in the above, the $2 (or what ever was between $[ and $] ) had an unbalanced set of '<' and '>' you would get that error. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940