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- From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: what's wrong with sendmail?
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 19:07:53 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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- In article <jpe.726342361@ee.egr.duke.edu>, jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
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- ] 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.
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- Our config file *does* have this at the top of ruleset 0.
- Any other ideas?
-
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- Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301
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