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From: chris@bnrunix.UUCP (Chris Fulmer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail problem...
Keywords: sendmail smail rmail uucp
Message-ID: <485@bnrunix.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 90 22:23:51 GMT
Organization: BNR Inc., RTP, NC
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Hi there.

This has probably been asked before, but....

We are having a problem with external people replying to mail sent from our
host across our uu link.


I think that what happens is that the replyed to mail gets copied to our
local host, via uucico and gets picked up by smail. smail connects to the smtp
port on the local machine, strips the local name off of the incoming message,
and trys to do a HELO with that name.  Now, the problem is that if the name
is the same as what sendmail thinks the local name is, sendmail gives back
an error, something like "name configuration error."

The current work-around is to tell everybody to strip the domain name off any
mail that they want to reply to.  Then, when the HELO happens, the two strings
don't match, and sendmail lets the connection go through.

Now, my question is:  How do I fix this?

The obvious hack is to change the sendmail configuration file so that when
only the local hostname is added onto the from: field, instead of the local
hostname and the domain.

Is this easily done?  I looked in the sendmail.cf file, and the from line
referenes the $q macro, which (I guess) is defined internal to sendmail.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Chris Fulmer                    			Bell-Northern Research
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"AAAHHHHH"					            RTP, NC 27709-3478