Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cwns1!chet From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Vicious rewriting of From: lines Message-ID: <1989Dec11.222232.1808@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 11 Dec 89 22:22:32 GMT References: <1107891037263761@thelake.UUCP> Reply-To: chet@ins.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 44 In article karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >steve@thelake.uucp writes: > Based on John Chew's "Inter-Network Mail Guide," I recently tried to send > a note to someone whose only e-mail address is on Compuserve. BOING! > ... > To: 73607.1231@compuserve.com > From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) > Reply-To: pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve > ... > >>> RCPT To:<73607.1231@uccba.uc.edu> > <<< 550 <73607.1231@uccba.uc.edu>... User unknown: Not a typewriter > 550 ... User unknown > >This part isn't my fault. That specific problem is apparently caused >by a mailer at (I'm guessing here, partially) uccba or CWRU, where it >somehow magically strips one item out of a !-path. I don't think it's my fault, either. My sendmail.cf correctly handles the address hal!uccba!compuserve.com!73607.1231@cwjcc.cwru.edu; it forwards it to hal over the campus net we have here. I think the `compuserve.com' part was gone before it got to cwjcc. Here are the relevant lines from my syslog file: Dec 4 11:47:00 localhost: 21613 sendmail: AA21613: message-id=<1104890237261783 @thelake.UUCP> Dec 4 11:47:05 localhost: 21613 sendmail: AA21613: from=, size=2371, class=0, received from saqq ara.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.98) Dec 4 11:47:14 localhost: 21622 sendmail: AA21613: to=, delay=00:00:17, stat=Sent Chet Ramey Sometime Personification of the Mailer Daemon Case Western Reserve University -- Chet Ramey Network Services Group "Where's my froggie?" Case Western Reserve University chet@ins.CWRU.Edu