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From: tran@excelan.COM (Tony Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Some basic questions on sendmail
Message-ID: <444@excelan.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 06:22:22 GMT
Sender: news@excelan.COM
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Hi,
I have a couple of really basic questions on sendmail, and I hope
it won't take much of your time.

Configuration:

 Hardware: VAX750 (uucp and arpanet gateway)
 Software: 4.3bsd Tahoe with 5.61++ sendmail with IDA patches

 Q1:  what are the rule sets used to resolve:

		* recipient on the cc: line
		* envelope recipient
		* envelope sender
		* header recipient
		* header sender

 Q2:  This host used to be named excelan. It is now "xlnvax.excelan.com"
	  (Fully qualified domain) with hostname being "xlnvax".

	  Other uucp neighbors still see it as excelan (via /etc/uucpname)
	  Yet, uucp mail to them get the name "xlnvax" appended to the
	  sender (xlnvax!username), making our UUCP mail un-replyable.

	  Question: Is there any way I can make my gateway host to append
	  "excelan" instead of "xlnvax" (as returned by gethostname) to
	  the sender address, i.e excelan!username  so that our UUCP
	  neigbhor can reply to my uucp mail?

	  {Note: for reason beyond my control, this host can not be
	   changed to excelan.excelan.com}

Thanks in advance,
Tony
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UUCP: {ames,sun,apple,amdahl,cae780}!excelan!tran  Tony Tran
Internet: tran@excelan.COM 
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