🚀 go-pugleaf

Greetings,

I've been plagued by this for months and have tried to figure this one out on
my own, but I have had no luck.

Sendmail (8.8.8) works just fine for Pine, mostly I have had no problems with
it.

However, using my Netscape 4.04 Linux, if I see some interesting news article
and try to mail the author, I always get back a message of the following type.
This is me (root@earthops.org, aliased to get me mail at klaatu@earthops.org,
with my reply-to line set to klaatu@clark.net) trying to send a test message
to klaatu@clark.net -

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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:50 -0500
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@earthops.org>
To: postmaster@earthops.org
Subject: Postmaster notify: User unknown
Parts/attachments:
   1     Shown    12 lines  Text                                              
   2     Shown   343 bytes  Message                                           
   3     Shown   2.8 KB     Message, "Returned mail: Data format error"       
   3.1   Shown    11 lines  Text                                              
   3.2   Shown   360 bytes  Message                                           
   3.3   Shown   1.2 KB     Message, "test mail"                              
   3.3.1 Shown    10 lines  Text                                              
----------------------------------------

The original message was received at Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:50 -0500
from localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<klaatu@clark.net>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.clark.net.:
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=836 BODY=lark.net.: client MAIL
<<< 501 <>... Unknown BODY type lark.net.:
501 <klaatu@clark.net>... Data format error
550 MAILER-DAEMON... User unknown

  [ Part 2: "Included Message" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; earthops.org
Received-From-MTA: DNS; earthops.org
Arrival-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:50 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; klaatu@clark.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.clark.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 <>... Unknown BODY type lark.net.:
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:50 -0500

  [ Part 3: "Included Message" ]

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:50 -0500
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@earthops.org>
To: klaatu@clark.net
Subject: Returned mail: Data format error

The original message was received at Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:44 -0500
from root@earthops.org [168.143.10.25]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<klaatu@clark.net>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.clark.net.:
>>> MAIL From:<klaatu@clark.net> SIZE=736 BODY=arthops.org [168.143.10.25]: 
DATA
<<< 501 <klaatu@clark.net>... Unknown BODY type arthops.org

  [ Part 3.2: "Included Message" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; earthops.org
Received-From-MTA: DNS; earthops.org
Arrival-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:44 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; klaatu@clark.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.clark.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 <klaatu@clark.net>... Unknown BODY type arthops.org
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:50 -0500


  [ Part 3.3: "Included Message" ]

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:18:43 -0500
From: klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>
To: klaatu@earthops.org, klaatu@clark.net
Subject: test mail

blah blah

<snip my sigs>

 

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The only think that I can think of is that somewhere in Netscape, it's somehow
adding a backslash into the address as it passes it off to sendmail, and that
sendmail must be getting confused by that backslash (probably netscape is
using it to escape the @ sign) and thus it's thinking that everything starting
exactly one character after the @ sign is actually the start of the message
body.

Worse still, it appears to be trying to send mail to a user named <> who isn't
going to exist anywhere.

Anyone who can clear this up for me will have my profound gratitude, this has
only been making me crazy for months.





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