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Article #3188Re: dxmail on ULTRIX
From: Frederick M. Avolio
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:20
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:20
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If I have an address something!else%host.UUCP@domain while it is ugly, and I'd rather die than generate such an address, the assumption is that "domain" will handle what is on the right hand side and if it generated it, it must be able to handle it. While all of this is ugly, it is allowed because it is on the left of the @ sign. There is only one way to handle the above address. Send it to "domain" for "domain" to handle "something!else%host.UUCP" however it wants to. It is not a question of defined or undefined. I have no business looking at what is clearly the localpart of the address. The case in question was a sendmail.cf that erroneously looked at this address and decided it should go to "something". This is wrong. The sendmail.cf in question actually took the address (again, using the above example) and changed it to something!else%host.UUCP<@domain> correctly focusing on "domain" and then decided, no, there is a bang in there so then it changed it to the erroneous: else%host.UUCP@domain<@something.UUCP> Based on that, it sent it via the wrong transport to the wrong host. The corrected sendmail.cf that I sent fixed this problem. The point is that anything to the left of the @ is up to the host to the right of the @ to handle. You -- and the ultrix sendmail.cf shipped with the product -- are breaking the rules. You are peaking. No peaking allowed.
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!decuac!avolio From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) Subject: Re: dxmail on ULTRIX Message-ID: <1992Nov16.142027.21114@decuac.dec.com> Lines: 33 Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: gildor.dco.dec.com Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center References: <1992Nov11.142812.9171@panix.com> <1drnfhINN3cj@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Nov12.182035.24694@decuac.dec.com> <1e15ghINN2oi@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:20:27 GMT