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From: ryan@aladdin.ingr.com (Ryan Waldron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail.cf woes
Message-ID: <133@aladdin.ingr.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 21:53:52 GMT
Reply-To: waldronr@ingr.com (Ryan Waldron)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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I am trying set up a sendmail.cf file which will intercept messages on
their way to a specific host, and send the message off to a special
program which I have defined as a mailer.  My problem (one of them,
anyway) is this:  When I run sendmail in debug mode, as in

sendmail -bt -d21.22

and do something like

> 0 weirdhost!12345

, it goes trundling through the rules, until it properly resolves to 

$# handler $1

.  The relevant rules lines are:

# Here's the special mailer
Mhandler, P=/usr/bin/handler, F=lsDFmUP, A=handler $u

These are right under the definition for the local and prog mailers]

and then the first lines in S0,

# Check for special host
R$=F!$-                 $# handler $2
R$-<@$=F.UUCP>          $# handler $1

and, finally, class F is defined as

# list of hostnames I wish to intercept
CFweirdhost

So, can anyone tell me why, then, when I send a message from my mailer
that is going to weirdhost!12345, the message ends up being queued for
uucp delivery (which is quite wrong).

Why doesn't sendmail recognize the address when running For Real (tm),
when it recognizes it most peachily when I am running in debug mode.
What's the deal?  Am I doing the debug mode improperly?

I apologize if this is a really stupid question, but I have read what
documentation that I know of (plus all the message in this group for
some time - even the ones I didn't understand at all) for weeks, and I
have no idea why this discrepancy occurs.  BTW, I would be willing to
make a phone call to practically anywhere in North America if it would
make it easier for some helpful soul to bail me out of this mess.

One more small note before I go:  I will be gone for about a
week-and-a-half after Friday (10/12), but this will still be a problem
for me when I get back, so please feel free to email or post
responses.  I just wanted to make it clear that no response from me
would NOT indicate that I was ignoring you, just that I am traveling
(on a honeymoon, no less).

Anyway, thanks for any help you can give me, and I hope that I have
sufficiently described the problem.