🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <710@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
> In <691@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> I wrote about turning 
> 	<user at host> => <user@host>
> messed up mail to
> 	<user@star.at.man.ac.uk>.
> 
> If you have a sendmail ruleset that reads
> 	R$+ at $+	$1@$2
> 
> it would be a good idea to remove it.  Who generates "at"s
> any more, anyway?  

  Hhmmm, why so it does.  Amazing.  Well, if you change the rule to:

	R$1+\ at\ $+	$1@$2

(at least on sendmail 4.12), it starts working correctly.  It appears
that while the sendmail document does say:

	Section 5.1.1

	...

		Rlhs rhs comments

	The fileds must be separated by at least one tab character; there
	may be embedded spaces in the fields. ...

it doesn't specify what embedded spaces *mean* ...  In any case, the
point is somewhat moot since Edward's comment is pretty valid: I don't
think anyone is generating ``user at host'' addresses any more, and if
they are, ripping the above rule out of sendmail.cf will force them to
get rid of the brain damage.

Casey