[comp.mail.sendmail] Sendmail/IDA problems

peter@radig.uucp (Peter Radig) (11/09/89)

Kent,
since mail mail to you gets bounced, I write a followup:

>1) When a path can't be determined & the mail is sent to our forwarder,
>the `To' line is re-written as follows:
>joe@foo.bar ==> tfd!joe%foo.bar
>The extra hostname at the beginning (`tfd') causes the mail to 
>be returned later on.  For what it's worth, the RMAIL address
>doesn't have the extra hostname included.

If `tfd' at the beginning of this rewritten path is your own's hostname
then remove the "V" from the mailer flags in the definition of the UUCP-
mailer (if set it makes *all* pathnames !-relative to your host).

>2) Wierd return addresses are generated.  Example:
>From @sundc.UUCP,@Sun.COM,@adobe:ps-file-server@adobe.com Tue Nov  7 02:58:27 1989
>Instead of `sundc!sun!adobe!ps-file-server'
>or `ps-file-server@adobe.com'

It think it's no weird - it's legal RFC 822-syntax: But check the "R" and "S"-
option in the UUCP-mailer definition. You may specify a rewriting ruleset
for the recipient's address (or the sender's address, resp.) which is used
directly before delivering the mail.

If you have any more questions regarding that stuff, simply e-mail...

Peter
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