Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!davecb From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix sendmail.cf vs. "Normal" sendmail.cf ??? Message-ID: <21669@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 13 Feb 91 20:17:02 GMT References: <1991Feb13.150918.22387@unhd.unh.edu> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 24 tjb@mozz.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) writes: | 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. I've seen the same problem on ultrix 4.0, but did not see it with equivalent (ie, identical save for comments) Ultrix 3.x sendmail.cf's... I now get error Host not connected to caliban.ariel.yorku.ca via uucp... I have 44 machines with working mail, but the next release fixes that (:-)) --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave 72 Abitibi Ave., | Willowdale, Ontario, | Even cannibals don't usually eat their CANADA. 416-223-8968 | friends.