Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: sendmail trouble Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 23:52:10 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 41 In-reply-to: mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu's message of 30 Oct 89 19:24:16 GMT In article mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: >There is an irritating bug in sendmail that causes the NeXT machine to >drop the domain name of the sender in the SMTP `From' field. >As an example, if I send mail, the return address that the recipient >sees is > mccalpin@masig3 >instead of > mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu Um, the recipient never sees the SMTP from: line. I take it you're referring to the message header from: line? If so, there's nothing wrong with sendmail, as a quick test from my Neezit demonstrates: |From jgreely Mon Oct 30 18:34:31 1989 |Received: by apple3.cis.ohio-state.edu (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/2.890120) | id ; Mon, 30 Oct 89 18:34:22 EST |Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 18:34:22 EST |From: J Greely |Message-Id: <8910302334.AA00383@apple3.cis.ohio-state.edu> |To: jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu |Subject: test If you're dropping domains, there's a problem in sendmail.cf, not sendmail. We don't use the NeXT default, so I couldn't point you to the right place to look, but it does work when properly configured. Grab the local sendmail hacker, ply h{im,er} with Cheetos and beer, and hope for the best. >Needless to say, this makes it extremely awkward when trying to send >and receive mail from sites outside of the fsu.edu domain.... With the volume of mail I see in a day, I'd have noticed by now if things were broken that way. "No, no, he's still breathing. See how the blood bubbles out of his nose?" -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)