[comp.mail.sendmail] Quoted From: sender fields

blambert@lotus.lotus.com (Brian Lambert) (03/12/91)

Hi:

I have a rather serious problem with our Sun Unix gateway and sendmail
that I need a guru's help on.  I hope this is the proper type of
question for this group!

We sell a product called Lotus Notes.  Notes is a group-ware product as
well as an E-Mail system.  Along with this we sell a gateway to VMSmail.
Internally we use this gateway to send mail to Internet sites by
connecting to DNI on our Sun gateway machine.

The problem I have is that the sender's address is represented as a
quoted address string in the form:

	node::"Firstname Lastname @ NotesDomain"

	node - VAX Node of gateway that sent the message to DNI
	Firstname, Lastname - User's Notes address
	NotesDomain - An internal "domain" for the Notes mail system

Basically, this from address is converted to:

	NODE!Firstname Lastname@NotesDomain

So the quotes are getting stripped away and this makes the message
unrepliable.  I'm so new to sendmail that it's hard for me to find a
place to start trying things.  I need someones help!

Here's what I'm looking for:

1) Does anyone have a document which can help a new (but pretty
seasoned) E-Mail system writer/hacker get into sendmail?

2) Does anyone have a similiar problem already solved?  If so, can you
send me your sendmail.cf file so I can try to understand how you solved
it?

Also, if you have solved other problems like this an feel like sending
me your sendmail.cf file so I can look at it, I would love to see them.

Thanks for all your time!  I'm not connected directly to the Internet,
so please send things to me via mail.  

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Brian Lambert
Lotus Development Corporation
blambert@lotus.com