Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <279618AF.2EBA@tct.uucp> Date: 17 Jan 91 21:35:42 GMT References: <2784B595.F6A@tct.uucp> <1991Jan14.011111.370@blilly.UUCP> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 23 According to bruce@balilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly): >In article <2784B595.F6A@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) claims: >>Any site running Smail 3.1 or a typical Sendmail configuration does not >>make the same assumption. Such sites prepend "host!" to "dom.ain!user". > >Chip, what is your definition of a ``typical Sendmail configuration?'' A Sendmail configuration based primarily on a .cf distributed with Sendmail by the vendor. From what I understand, most sites plug-and-play, changing only those things that break their local usage. >And on what evidence do you base that definition? Personal experience and lots of Usenet articles (hearsay). Is it disputed that the transformation from "dom.ain!user" to "localhost!dom.ain!user" is performed by many, if not most, sites that use Sendmail? -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "If Usenet exists, then what is its mailing address?" -- me "c/o The Daily Planet, Metropolis." -- Jeff Daiell