[comp.mail.sendmail] <route-addr> problem

jjb@wsu-cs.uucp (J. Brewster) (07/06/89)

I seem to be having a bit of difficulty getting our machines to
deal with route-addresses properly.  The same problem exists on
both MicroVAXen running Ultrix 2.2 and Sun-3's running SunOS 4.0.1.

The problem is that route addresses of the form
<@hosta,@hostb:user@hostc> don't get delivered.  Addresses of the
form <@hosta:user@hostb> are fine.  The problem appears to be that
sendmail interprets the first sort of address as three addresses,
delimited by commas.  It complains about the first and third parts of
the address -- 
	<<@hosta>... Unbalanced '<'
	<user@hostc>>... Unbalanced '>'
and then queues up a bogus message to @hostb with User unknown.

Any clues?

Thanks,

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