mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) (10/31/89)
There is an irritating bug in sendmail that causes the NeXT machine to drop the domain name of the sender in the SMTP `From' field. As an example, if I send mail, the return address that the recipient sees is mccalpin@masig3 instead of mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu Needless to say, this makes it extremely awkward when trying to send and receive mail from sites outside of the fsu.edu domain.... This behavior seems to be independent of the contents of sendmail.cf, and is independent of whether the machine's hostname is set to the short name or the fully-qualified domain name. Has anyone figured out how to fix this? -- John D. McCalpin - mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu
jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) (10/31/89)
In article <MCCALPIN.89Oct30142416@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu> mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: >There is an irritating bug in sendmail that causes the NeXT machine to >drop the domain name of the sender in the SMTP `From' field. >As an example, if I send mail, the return address that the recipient >sees is > mccalpin@masig3 >instead of > mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu Um, the recipient never sees the SMTP from: line. I take it you're referring to the message header from: line? If so, there's nothing wrong with sendmail, as a quick test from my Neezit demonstrates: |From jgreely Mon Oct 30 18:34:31 1989 |Received: by apple3.cis.ohio-state.edu (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/2.890120) | id <AA00383@apple3.cis.ohio-state.edu>; Mon, 30 Oct 89 18:34:22 EST |Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 18:34:22 EST |From: J Greely <jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu> |Message-Id: <8910302334.AA00383@apple3.cis.ohio-state.edu> |To: jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu |Subject: test If you're dropping domains, there's a problem in sendmail.cf, not sendmail. We don't use the NeXT default, so I couldn't point you to the right place to look, but it does work when properly configured. Grab the local sendmail hacker, ply h{im,er} with Cheetos and beer, and hope for the best. >Needless to say, this makes it extremely awkward when trying to send >and receive mail from sites outside of the fsu.edu domain.... With the volume of mail I see in a day, I'd have noticed by now if things were broken that way. "No, no, he's still breathing. See how the blood bubbles out of his nose?" -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)