[comp.mail.sendmail] Problem with From: lines in UUCP->SMTP mail

malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) (08/14/89)

I sent this out once before, but our newsfeed was down, so here goes...

One of our machines here (running 4.3 BSD and vanilla 5.61 sendmail) is
configured as a UUCP<->SMTP mail gateway.  The sendmail.cf file being used
is based on the 'cad' configuration provided with the 5.61 distribution, and
is generated with m4.  Everything works ok, except:

The From and From: lines in mail sent from UUCP hosts to SMTP hosts via the
gateway machine look like "user@host.uucp" rather than "host!user@gateway.dom".
The tcp and tcpld Sender address rewriting rules that are built in to the
'cad'-type configuration are written such that "host!user" and "user@host.uucp"
Sender addresses supposedly get converted to "host!user<@gateway.dom>", which
is what we want.  However, in practice this rewriting does not seem to occur,
although these rulesets work correctly when tested using sendmail -bt.

I've brute-force added some of my own Sender address rewriting rules for the
tcp and tcpld mailers to try to fix this, but to no avail (although again, the
rulesets I built to to this job work correctly when tested using sendmail -bt).

Anyone know what's preventing the rewriting of host!user UUCP Sender addresses
into host!user<@gateway.dom> format?

Thanks in advance,


Malcolm L. Carlock

malc@unrvax.unr.edu
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