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From: tjb@mozz.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ultrix sendmail.cf vs. "Normal" sendmail.cf ???
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.150918.22387@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 15:09:18 GMT
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Has anyone addressed the fact that when sending mail from an ultrix machine to an address of the form uucphost!user@etherhost, the address is parsed wrong, or at least different, then from other machines?  Basically what happens is it gets parsed with the ! and @ being of eqal precedence.  Other machines defer the ! and treat uucphost!user as the user mailing to etherhost.

an ultrix example...

# /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 0 icecube!tjb@unhd
rewrite: ruleset  3   input: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "@" "unhd"
rewrite: ruleset  8   input: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "@" "unhd"
rewrite: ruleset  8 returns: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "@" "unhd"
rewrite: ruleset  6   input: "tjb" "@" "unhd" "<" "@" "icecube" "." "UUCP" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  6 returns: "tjb" "@" "unhd" "<" "@" "icecube" "." "UUCP" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  3 returns: "tjb" "@" "unhd" "<" "@" "icecube" "." "UUCP" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  0   input: "tjb" "@" "unhd" "<" "@" "icecube" "." "UUCP" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  0 returns: "^V" "error" "^X" "Host" "icecube" "not" "connected
" "to" "mozz" "via" "uucp"
>


a sun example...

% /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 0 icecube!tjb@unhd
rewrite: ruleset  3   input: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "@" "unhd"
rewrite: ruleset  6   input: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<" "@" "unhd" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  6 returns: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<" "@" "unhd" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  3 returns: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<" "@" "unhd" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  0   input: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<" "@" "unhd" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  9   input: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<" "@" "unhd" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  9 returns: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<" "@" "unhd" ">"
rewrite: ruleset  0 returns: $# "ether" $@ "mailhost" $: "icecube" "!" "tjb" "<"
 "@" "unhd" ">"
> 


Why is this and has anyone made a fix?  


Thanks for any help you can provide...

tjb

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