kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) (07/18/90)
Vital information: sendmail version 5.61 with IDA enhancements
I am trying to handle mail from our VMS VAX and I am running into a little
problem. The problem is if a user mails from a machine that is not the one
that executes SMTP, the sender (both envelope and headers) are of the form:
VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!"CLUSTER_NAME::USERNAME" (with the double quotes!). It
does not pose a problems to our mailer, but when we pass the message to
other mailers in the network, a lot of them barf on calculating the return
path. I tried to write a rule that would match $+!"$+::$+" but sendmail
apparently handles double quotes differently than I would expect (ie. first
of all it did not match, secondly it said it was trying to match:
-----trying rule: $+ ! "^Q::^Q"
So my question is: How do I match double quotes? Or better yet, what will
be a good translation rule for converting
VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!"CLUSTER_NAME::USERNAME" to VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!USERNAME,
and, which rule should I put this in?
Thanks in advance,
Keith Cantrell
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) (07/19/90)
In article <798@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) asks: How do you parse double quotes? The answer is: You can't do this with sendmail. Sendmail assumes that the headers and addresses are RFC822-compliant, so anything within double quotes is treated as a single token. >So my question is: How do I match double quotes? Or better yet, what will >be a good translation rule for converting >VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!"CLUSTER_NAME::USERNAME" to VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!USERNAME, >and, which rule should I put this in? The place to do this is not in sendmail, but in the gateway between the DECnet world and the Internet world. I just added support to my DECnet mail gateway for rewrite rules based on regular expressions. With this code and some help from the domain name server, it's not too difficult to convert most DECnet mail addresses to domain addresses. I'll announce in this newsgroup when the new version of the gateway is ready for release. -- Keith Moore Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu University of Tenn. CS Dept. BITNET: moore@utkvx 107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus UT Decnet: utkcs::moore Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 Telephone: +1 615 974 0822
peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce) (07/19/90)
In article <1990Jul18.170636.8340@cs.utk.edu> moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes: >In article <798@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) asks: >>So my question is: How do I match double quotes? Or better yet, what will >>be a good translation rule for converting >>VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!"CLUSTER_NAME::USERNAME" to VAX_MAIL_MACHINE!USERNAME, >>and, which rule should I put this in? > >The place to do this is not in sendmail, but in the gateway between >the DECnet world and the Internet world. It sounds like the problem could be /usr/etc/mail11dv3. It's not stripping off the double quotes from mail coming from the VMS side (which must be addressed ULTRIXNODE::"user@host.domain". It leaves the quotes on, sendmail treats everything inside it as one token and does some funny things with it. mail11dv3 used to work ok but it was broken for ULTRIX 3.0. I got a patched copy from someone at DEC that worked fine. It was supposed to be fixed in 3.1 but wasn't. Fortunately, the 3.0 version still worked. If anyone needs a copy of mail11dv3, let me know. -- Leonard Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computing Services UUCP: ...!uunet!sharkey!wmichgw!peirce Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Phone: (616) 387-5469