[comp.mail.sendmail] sendmail.cf help request

cammie@oravax.UUCP (Cammie Howard) (07/29/88)

I hope this is the right news group to post this request.

Curently, we are using a sendmail.cf file configured for a machine
with "only uucp connections".  The symbol ! has the highest
precedence.

This folly has now caught up with us, and I have taken on the task to
correct our sendmail.cf file.  I am new to the guts of sendmail, so
any help to would be apreciated.

As a side issue: The line in the "from:" field is in the form 
		cornell!foo@blort.edu 
and when a reply (via "r") is sent the mail often disappears.  Addresses
in the form 	foo@blort.edu 	work fine.  Is there a way not to have
the cornell! prepended to the "from" address line?

Thanks in advance.

	Cammie Howard		 cammie%oravax.uucp@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
	System Administrator
	Odyssey Reseach Assoc.

rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) (07/30/88)

From article <424@oravax.UUCP>, by cammie@oravax.UUCP (Cammie Howard):
> 
> I hope this is the right news group to post this request.
> 
> Curently, we are using a sendmail.cf file configured for a machine
> with "only uucp connections".  The symbol ! has the highest
> precedence.
  
> As a side issue: The line in the "from:" field is in the form 
> 		cornell!foo@blort.edu 
> [....] Addresses in the form 	foo@blort.edu 	work fine.  Is there a way
not to have the cornell! prepended to the "from" address line?
 I don't have my sendmail manual here, and it's been months since I looked
at it, but there are two things to consider:

one fix is to have a rule for: single token (cornell?) ! token @ random.stuff
that spits out token@random.stuff

This should work for both outgoing and ingoing mail.
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