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- From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: what's wrong with sendmail?
- Message-ID: <jpe.726342361@ee.egr.duke.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:46:01 GMT
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- moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes:
-
- >% telnet rios smtp
- >Trying...
- >Connected to rios.cs.utk.edu.
- >Escape character is '^]'.
- >220 rios.cs.utk.edu Sendmail AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/2.7c-UTK-AIX-brain-damage ready at Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:57:20 -0500
- >helo localhost
- >250 rios.cs.utk.edu Hello localhost (RIOS.CS.UTK.EDU), pleased to meet you
- >mail from:<moore@cs.utk.edu>
- >554 rewrite: cannot prescan canonical hostname: cs.utk.edu>
- >554 <moore@cs.utk.edu>... Unbalanced '>'
- >451 rewrite: cannot prescan canonical hostname: cs.utk.edu>: No such file or directory
-
- The problem is in IBM's sendmail. Most sendmails automatically call ruleset
- 3 before calling ruleset 0 -- this is not true of the IBM version. Try running
- sendamil -bt on the IBM and also a Sun -- type in "0 user@host". On the sun
- you'll get the proper parsing, while the IBM will invoke the local mailer with
- a userid of "user@host".
-
- >Is there a fix for this?
-
- The fix - place the following rules at the top of ruleset 0:
-
- R$*<$*>$* $1$2$3 defocus
- R$+ $:$>3$1 make canonical
-
- The first strips the "<>" from the address and the second passes the result
- to ruleset 3, which is what you want.
-
- -John
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