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Article #98Re: uk-sendmail and SPAN
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:44
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:44
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In article <7024.9106110946@rahman.earth.ox.ac.uk> keith@earth.ox.ac.uk (Keith Refson) writes: > >"site::user"@uk.ac.span-relay. > >Sendmail is stripping the quotation marks from the `user' Stripping of quotes is determined by the 's' flag on the mailer definition. Normally this is needed on the local mailer and the prog mailer, but not on any other mailer. Unfortunately some people mistakenly put an 's' flag on other mailers. In the sample .cf files distributed by Berkeley, the 's' flag appears only in the local and prog mailers. Regrettably, 'sendmail.main.cf' distributed by Sun has the 's' flag set in ALL MAILERS. Unfortunately, fixing the flags in your own mailer definitions may not solve your problem. They will need to be fixed in all systems your message traverses. >which the relay requires to be quoted. Thus all mail is bounced. What is >peculiar is that the quotation marks are retained in the "To:" field, but >stripped from the JNT header. This is because the 's' flag only appears to the actual (i.e. envelope) recipient addresses, and not to any addresses on the headers. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!aunro!ukma!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: mail.uk-sendmail-workers,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: uk-sendmail and SPAN Message-ID: <1991Jun11.194454.25100@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 19:44:54 GMT References: <7024.9106110946@rahman.earth.ox.ac.uk> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 31