janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (10/26/90)
Folks, I have a problem with the way that messages re-writes addresses. If I specify an address as "janssen.parc", it is re-written (assuming it's not an alias or bulletin board) as "janssen.parc@holmes.parc.xerox.com". This causes problems with our mail setup (which has to support XNS, and does so with a pseudo-SMTP-address scheme). So: Is there a configuration variable I can set to prevent the local host from being added to the (apparently) local address during re-write, so that "janssen.parc" remains "janssen.parc"? Or: What code in mswp.c should I be changing to add such a configuration variable? Bill
hans@TRIUMPH-ADLER.DE ("Hans v. Kleist-Retzow") (10/26/90)
Excerpts from dringend: 25-Oct-90 Mail munging Bill Janssen@parc.xerox. (623) > Folks, > I have a problem with the way that messages re-writes addresses. If I > specify an address as "janssen.parc", it is re-written (assuming it's > not an alias or bulletin board) as "janssen.parc@holmes.parc.xerox.com". I also had the problems with the rewriting of mail addresses. I identified that the mail address is rewritten to the first entry for the host in the /etc/hosts. I changed the sequence of the aliases in /etc/hosts and have no problems. Hans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans von Kleist-Retzow, TA Triumph-Adler AG, Olivetti Office Research Abt. EF21, Fuerther Str. 212, D-8500 Nuernberg 80, West-Germany Tel: +49 911 322 6355 E-Mail: hans@triumph-adler.de
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (10/26/90)
You can use the AndrewSetup line AMS_NoDomainPreferredOnLocalMail: 1 which may or may not be what you want. It will make "janssen" validate as Bill Janssen <janssen> rather than Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com> If that's not what you want, then I'm not sure how to help. (Of course, if you do this, you'll have to make sure your sendmail rewrites the headers before external delivery.)