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From: petej@ssg0.pharmacia.com (Peter M. Jansson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Why does sendmail -bt lie?
Message-ID: <270@ssg0.pharmacia.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 16:07:17 GMT
Reply-To: petej@pharmacia.com (Peter M. Jansson)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pharmacia Diagnostics, Columbia, MD
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We are connected to two sites, one of which is uunet, through which I
route my outbound mail by default.  I was trying to force use of the
other connection by sending mail to:

	foo!bar.com!someone

where foo is the other connection.  The message was queued for uunet,
to be sent to "bar.com.UUCP!someone", which is *not* what I expected.
To try to figure out what is going on, I tried invoking sendmail with
-bt, and fed it "0 foo!bar.com!someone", to which it replied:

> rewrite: ruleset  3   input: "foo" "!" "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone"
> rewrite: ruleset  8   input: "foo" "!" "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone"
> rewrite: ruleset  8 returns: "foo" "!" "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone"
> rewrite: ruleset  3 returns: "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone" "<" "@" "foo" "." "UUCP" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset  0   input: "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone" "<" "@" "foo" "." "UUCP" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset  6   input: "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone" "<" "@" "foo" "." "UUCP" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset  6 returns: "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone" "<" "@" "foo" "." "UUCP" ">"
> rewrite: ruleset  0 returns: "$#" "uucp" "$@" "foo" "$:" "bar" "." "com" "!" "someone"

This looks like exactly what I want it to do.  Why isn't sendmail
actually queueing the mail the way -bt indicates?  Replies via e-mail
are welcome (the inbound side works fine!).

Thanks for any help,

	Pete.