Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <1990Dec7.003726.28242@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 7 Dec 90 00:37:26 GMT References: <208@frcs.UUCP> <1990Dec6.042257.9620@blilly.UUCP> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 23 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >If your site inflicts "user@tinytoy" on my sendmail, I'm going to >finish the job of address-breaking that your site started: It's going >to be rewritten as user@cis.ohio-state.edu. This rewrite does the But if your site inflicts 'user@tinytoy' on my sendmail, its gonna be changed to 'user%tinytoy@your.relay.host', where 'your.relay.host' means the host which actually connected to me - if not known to DNS this might become 'user%tinytoy@[1.2.3.4]' (with the appropriate actual internet address. I got tired of these unqualified addresses cropping up everywhere, and the bounced mail they generate. So I added this feature to the IDA package. Look for an announcement soon of 'IDA-1.4.1' configuration kit. This won't solve all the problems of vendor supplied software which doesn't properly qualify domains, but it should help. (Sorry, it can't be done in non-IDA versions of sendmail). -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com