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Re: sendmail.cf help request

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From: Stephen Samuel
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1988 13:56
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From article <424@oravax.UUCP>, by cammie@oravax.UUCP (Cammie Howard):
> 
> I hope this is the right news group to post this request.
> 
> Curently, we are using a sendmail.cf file configured for a machine
> with "only uucp connections".  The symbol ! has the highest
> precedence.
  
> As a side issue: The line in the "from:" field is in the form 
> 		cornell!foo@blort.edu 
> [....] Addresses in the form 	foo@blort.edu 	work fine.  Is there a way
not to have the cornell! prepended to the "from" address line?
 I don't have my sendmail manual here, and it's been months since I looked
at it, but there are two things to consider:

one fix is to have a rule for: single token (cornell?) ! token @ random.stuff
that spits out token@random.stuff

This should work for both outgoing and ingoing mail.
-- 
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 Stephen Samuel 
  {ihnp4,ubc-vision,vax135}!alberta!edm!steve
  or userzxcv@uofamts.bitnet
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Message-ID: <3242@edm.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!att!alberta!access!edm!rroot
References: <424@oravax.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!att!alberta!access!edm!rroot
From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail.cf help request
Message-ID: <3242@edm.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 88 13:56:40 GMT
References: <424@oravax.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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