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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: $f expansion in 5.65/IDA-1.4.2 sendmail from UIUC/NIU
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.055929.19219@bhpmrl.oz.au>
Date: 10 Jan 91 05:59:29 GMT
Organization: BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories, AUSTRALIA
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I'm having a problem with the $f expansion when using the recently released
sendmail 5.65/IDA-1.4.2 from UIUC/NIU. (my box is an Apollo, sr10.2)

The problem:

I have a mailer defined as follows

Mmhsnet, P=/usr/local/bin/netfile, F=hmsuSDFM, A=netfile -Amailer -Q$u -S$f -

The "netfile" mailer appends my fully qualified domain name merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au
onto the argument in the -S flag. Unfortunately, I have no control over this.
I *want* $f to be the sender from address, ie. so the address would then be
written as ianh@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au, but it looks like $f expands to 
a fully qualified form since the addresses start looking like

	ianh@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au

Where could this be happening?? I've stared at the code a bit and tried to
track down where the expansion occurs but ended up getting a bit lost ....

BTW  I think this release of sendmail is bloody terrific :-)


		ian
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                Ian Hoyle
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