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Article #3294problem with "To:" line
From: Ted Roberts
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 21:25
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 21:25
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This weekend I installed a new sendmail.cf file on my system and I've
been having a minor, but irritating problem. I have a main mail
machine that serves as our smart mailer and a couple of other
semi-smart machines that can pass mail to each other and to the main
mailhost. The rest of the nodes basically just send everything to a
smart or semi-smart machine. All the machines are SUN 3/XXXs, some
running 3.5 and some running 4.0.1. Anyway, when anyone on the local
network sends mail to a user that is aliased to one of the semi-smart
hosts, the mail arrives with the "To:" header written incorrectly. It
should read (I think) <user>@<aliased-to-node>, or possibly just
<user>, but it ends up as <user>@eds.com (eds.com being the designation
for the main mailhost). What bugs me is that I can't seem to track
down where the header is being switched from <user> to <user>@eds.com.
When I send to <user>@<semi-smart-host> it is written correctly.
I've run it through sendmail using address test mode and everything is
fine. I run it through using -d21.12 and it looks fine. I even killed
the sendmail demon on the semi-smart host and checked the file in
/usr/spool/mqueue and it looks okay. I'm using sendmail 4.1 and the
configuration file built by smail 2.5 (and apparently delivered with
SUN OS4.0.1). Am I overlooking something? Any ideas on how to track
down what node or what ruleset is rewriting it? My understanding is
that the To: header is the result of R3, user portion of R0, R2, D, R4.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Ted Roberts | My opinions are not necessarily those
EDS Technical Systems Development | of my employer. Does that mean I'm
roberts@eds.com | wrong?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!edsews!roberts From: roberts@edsews.EDS.COM (Ted Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: problem with "To:" line Keywords: header to Message-ID: <12085@edsews.EDS.COM> Date: 2 Apr 89 21:25:06 GMT Distribution: na Organization: EDS/TSD - Troy, MI Lines: 29