Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Is "R$*<$+>$* $2" cruft? Message-ID: <1990Jun7.124634.27597@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 7 Jun 90 12:46:34 GMT Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 21 In I said: As far as I can tell, the rule: R$*<$+>$* $2 basic RFC822 parsing found in ruleset 3 is cruft, put in by someone who doesn't understand sendmail. In perusing the source, it seems that commentcomment is already taken care of. Is this true? No, it's not true. Sendmail seems to strip the comments, but it also happily sends the whole address, comments and all, to the rewrite rules. So, without the rule, addresses had an extra set of <>s, which really confused the user<@host> convention that the rewrite rules keep. The reason it worked when I did it by hand is that I neglected to add the <>'s around the mail from: and rcpt to: addresses. Oops. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems