paola@i2unix.UUCP (Paola Formai) (08/23/89)
Hi, I am configuring a new sendmail.cf on my new Hp 9000/835S. Hp talks to the Italian network backbone site via a dialup uucp link; I configured sendmail.cf in such a way an address as: user@host.domain is routed, via uucp, to the backbone. The mail is correctly delivered to the backbone site BUT each user receives back his/her mail with: ----- Transcription of session follows ------ 554 No ! in UUCP! (paola@hp.UNIMI.IT) ----- Unsent message follows ----- etc. etc. How could I avoid this annoying thing? On my old Vax 4.3BSD with a similar sendmail.cf all works really fine and the user does not receive back his/her mail. The only notification of the use of the syntax user@host.domain instead of host.d!user is in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog. Ciao. Paola Formai Centro di Calcolo Univ. di Milano, Italy paola@imiucca.bitnet ...mcvax!i2unix!imiucca!paola
diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) (09/03/89)
> I configured sendmail.cf in such a way an address as: > user@host.domain > is routed, via uucp, to the backbone. > > The mail is correctly delivered to the backbone site BUT each user > receives back his/her mail with: > > ----- Transcription of session follows ------ > 554 No ! in UUCP! (paola@hp.UNIMI.IT) > > How could I avoid this annoying thing? The message occurs because the From_ line can't be correctly generated without a "!" (since it is a UUCP header and expecting UUCP syntax). If your environment (those machines you talk to with UUCP) doesn't need From_ lines (note that means "From" followed by the space character, as opposed to "From:" lines, which should be just fine), you should be able to remove the "U" mailer flag which will stop it from attempting to generate that header. Whether you need this header or not depends on how return addresses in replies are generated by the remote computers. Good luck, John Diamant Software Engineering Systems Division Hewlett-Packard Co. Internet: diamant@hpfclp.sde.hp.com Fort Collins, CO UUCP: {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant