Sendmail internet/uucp questions

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2 total messages Started by USENET News adm Fri, 20 Jan 1989 17:27

#3096

Author: USENET News adm
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 17:27

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My system is an IBM-RT running AIX 2.2 with Sendmail 4.03.  We are 
connected to several uucp sites.  We also are connected to a small 
internet.  One of the internet sites is bringing up ANU News under VMS.

My problem is that if a user on the VMS site posts a message to some 
newsgroup, the return path the rest of the world sees is:

	uucpsite!matrox!vmssite!user

Once the message gets to me, mail tries to send the message to vmssite!user.
Sendmail gives it to uucp to deal with (because of the '!') and uucp barfs 
saying it doesn't know about vmssite.  

I can't just change the rules dealing with '!'s because there are serveral
other sites I feed mail to and fro via uucp.  The vmssite doesn't have a
uucp deamon or any other way to deal with uucp.

Can Sendmail do what I need?  (i.e. for selected sites rewrite site!user
                              to user@site but for others leave it alone.)
How do I get Sendmail to do this?

thanks in advance,
				rob
				uunet!uvm-gen!matrox!rob
				(514) 685-2630 x318

Re: Sendmail internet/uucp questions

#3102

Author: Karl Kleinpaste
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1989 14:20

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news@matrox.UUCP (USENET News adm) writes:
   My problem is that if a user on the VMS site posts a message to some 
   newsgroup, the return path the rest of the world sees is:
	   uucpsite!matrox!vmssite!user
   Sendmail gives it to uucp to deal with (because of the '!') and uucp barfs 

Try this:

CUvmssite1 vmssite2 OtherNonUucpSitesWhichCanPostNews

R$=U!$+			$2@$1		Fake UUCP: it's really an SMTP site

Stuff it in just before the generic ! detector.  Personally, I'd do it
in S0, for delivery only, rather than hacking the header in S3, thus
preserving the syntax used there.  But that might not be optimal -
your mileage will vary.

If the class U gets too large, you probably want to put it in a file
instead, and use FU rather than CU.

--Karl

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