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From: cqny@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Mail return address problem
Summary: DECnet/Internet gateway supplies insufficient return address
Keywords: mail, DECnet/Internet gateway, return address
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.115020.1002@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:50:20 GMT
Reply-To: marisa@cpa.tn.cornell.edu
Distribution: comp
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I've been having an ongoing problem with mail message return addresses:

Mail originates on VAX/VMS, sent through Ultrix DECnet/Internet gateway, to
an internet address.  The message is sent, but the return address
on the message looks like:
From: user%vmshost.dnet@ultrixhost

This works fine with 'local' internet addresses, but distant recipients
often complain that the return address lacks the fully-qualified domain
name for the ultrixhost, i.e.:
From: user%vmshost.dnet@ultrixhost.domain.cornell.edu

Has anyone fixed this problem; I find the rules in sendmail.cf rather opaque.
Please mail replies to marisa@cpa.tn.cornell.edu

thanx, -- Rich Marisa
Cornell Programmable Automation
(607) 255-7636