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Article #3406Sendmail configuration file
From: Kamal M. Ahmed
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 16:53
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 16:53
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Hi
I am posting this for a friend of mine who does not have access to
news. If you can help please reply by mail. I have set up the Reply-to
field appropriately.
Kamal...
Help ....
This is shri ( ...shri%shakti@uunet.uu.net ).
I need some help with the sendmail configuartion file.
I have been experimenting with the sendmail configuration file to learn
more of its secrets, as we do not have much documentation on it.
I ran into some problems, hence the following questions. Thanx for any help ...
1. Sendmail has a SYSERR message in it. What causes this to be issued ?
I triggered this off with a uucp mail address rewrite rule that converted
one address into one without the conventional ! sign.
This was with a mailer called "uucpf", to distiguish it from the usual
uucp mailer.
How did sendmail trap this ? How does it know it is uucp mail ?
How can I get over this problem ?
2. rmail seems to add the remote hostname to the beginning of the from
address in the mail header. Where does it pick up this informaion from ?
Some hosts on our network do not confirm to the RFC822 format. So some pre-
processing is needed to convert the headers here.
Thanx for all help
Please mail replies to shri%shakti@uunet.uu.net.
-- shri
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Kamal M. Ahmed Internet:ahmed@cs.Buffalo.EDU
S.U.N.Y at Buffalo BITNET : ahmed@sunybcs.BITNET
uucp : !{boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!ahmed
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!ahmed From: ahmed@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Kamal M. Ahmed) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Sendmail configuration file Message-ID: <6052@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 23 May 89 16:53:54 GMT Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: shri%shakti@uunet.uu.net. (H. Shrikumar) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 42