dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) (11/05/90)
I tried to email the following response to Peter Jeffe but the mailer in
Austin wouldn't resolve the email address 'jeffe' so I'm posting the
reply instead.
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Peter,
I was reading your news posting about forwarding unknown hosts to
a mail forwarder. In using our RS/6000's in a combined UUCP and
TCP/IP network, I ran into that problem. (I think the news subject
your reply is on was from my origonal posting). Anyway, I also had
a problem of when a local tcp/ip node sent mail via the RS/6000 to
my uucp gateway, the reply path got inverted. The RS/6000 sent out
the from in a form:
rs6000!user@tcphost
When the gateway got this, it translated it to 'tcphost!rs6000!user'
which is not what I needed. I wanted it to say 'rs6000!tcphost!user'.
My eventual solution, was to replace the sendmail.cf that came on the
RS/6000 with the one that comes with the SGI Personal Iris. After
removing some option settings that don't apply to the RS/6000 and
changing the name of the local mail delivery program, it all runs fine
now. If you'd be interested in seeing what SGI has done with their
sendmail.cf, I'd be glad to send a copy to you.
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