knutson@marconi.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson) (03/18/89)
I'm having a problem with rewriting the To: field when using an alias that includes delivery to a uucp neighbor. Given that I had the following as an alias: members-at-large: knutson@milano.uucp If I mailed a message on peyote to members-at-large, I would end up with a header which looked like: From: peyote.cactus.org!knutson (Jim Knutson) To: members-at-large When the message was finally delivered on milano, the message header looked like: From knutson@peyote.cactus.org Fri Mar 17 15:46:38 1989 From: knutson@peyote.cactus.org (Jim Knutson) To: members-at-large@milano.sw.mcc.com Now for the questions: 1. Is there a problem with using domained hostnames for uucp delivery? Should I be using the syntax user@domain, user@host.uucp or host!user? 2. Is the header being written correctly, or should the To: field be rewritten? I already tried rewriting it to be peyote!members-at-large but then milano thinks the mail is supposed to be sent back to peyote. 3. Will the C flag on someones uucp mailer definition solve this and if so who needs the change (milano, right?)? -- Jim Knutson knutson@mcc.com cs.utexas.edu!milano!knutson
ecf_hap@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) (03/21/89)
In article <2137@marconi.sw.mcc.com> knutson@marconi.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson) writes: >I'm having a problem with rewriting the To: field when using an >alias that includes delivery to a uucp neighbor. [...] >From: peyote.cactus.org!knutson (Jim Knutson) >To: members-at-large > >When the message was finally delivered on milano, the message header >looked like: > >From knutson@peyote.cactus.org Fri Mar 17 15:46:38 1989 >From: knutson@peyote.cactus.org (Jim Knutson) >To: members-at-large@milano.sw.mcc.com > [...] >3. Will the C flag on someones uucp mailer definition solve this and if so > who needs the change (milano, right?)? It looks to me like milano is probably doing this in either their sender ruleset or ruleset 4. Milano probably sees this unqualified address going out and tacks on it's (milano's) name assuming that it's (members-at-large) a local name. That's what my machine would do - is this wrong? On the subject of the "C" flag: why is it applied (apparently) after all of the rulesets? In my config, this results in all "To:" addresses on the local machine, which have been stripped of our hostname, getting the sender's host.domain appended to them. For that matter, when would this flag actually be helpful? Andy andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu ecf_hap@jhunix.UUCP ecf_hap@jhuvms.BITNET