bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) (11/28/88)
In our sendmail.cf we do some rewriting of sender addresses, when using uucp to the 'outside world', i.e. to our backbone. What we do is to strip various local machine names, and rewriting the sender address to orcenl!<user>. We are not (yet) a registered domain, and all outgoing mail should therefore have uucp-style sender addresses, without any local machine names. This system works, as long as all local hosts are known to the sendmail. Now, somebody has added a new machine, without having the name registered with this sendmail, and the result is a sender address of orcenl!<user>@<host>. To get to the point, is there a way to get sendmail return this with an error to the local user, with this error being detected in the sender rewriting rule given with the mailer (as 'Muucp ... S=13, R=23 ...'). The same thing should happen with local recipients in Cc: lines. What I want is something like aborting the mailing, and use mailer error in-stead. All internal mailing is done via SMTP and sendmail and we don't have sendmail sources. Uucp is only used for external mail. -- Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Europe \ / "Hofstaedter's Law: It always takes ..!uunet!mcvax!orcenl!bengsig X longer than you expect, even if you phone: +31 21 59 56 411 / \ take into account Hofstaedter's Law"