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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: weird BUILD ADDR error
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.053238.16448@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:32:38 GMT
- References: <9231015.21343@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- Lines: 26
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- In article <9231015.21343@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> aris@foucault.maths.mu.oz.au writes:
- > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- >While connected to mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU:
- >>>> MAIL From:<aris@foucault.maths.mu.OZ.AU>
- ><<< 554 buildaddr: error: no user
- >554 janes@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU... 554 Remote protocol error
-
- This appears to be a problem that occurred on 'mundoe'. The actual
- message (the "buildaddr" message) means that in processing and address,
- the mailer selection triple on the RHS - $#mailer $@host $:user -
- had no '$:user' component. This is an error in 'sendmail.cf'.
-
- The error appears to have occurred during the preliminary parsing of the
- sender address 'aris@foucault.math.mu.oz.au'
-
- As a test, try
- telnet mundoe.maths.mu.oz.au smtp
- expn aris@foucault.maths.mu.oz.au
- quit
-
- I suspect you will see the same type of problem. Next run 'sendmail
- -bt' on 'mundoe', and test the address 'aris@foucault.maths.mu.oz.au'
- with ruleset 0. Look carefully to see if the $: is present. If there
- is both a $@ and a $: then check the mailer flags for the selected
- mailer. If the 'l' flag is present, it may be complaining about the
- unexpected $@ for a local mailer.
-