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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix sendmail.cf vs. "Normal" sendmail.cf ???
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.175422.17944@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 17:54:22 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.150918.22387@unhd.unh.edu>
Organization: Western Michigan University Academic Computing Services
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In article <1991Feb13.150918.22387@unhd.unh.edu> 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 equal precedence.  Other machines defer the !
>and treat uucphost!user as the user mailing to etherhost.

There is a rule in S0 that looks like

R$-!$+                 $#uucp$@$1$:$2          host!...

Comment it out and it will work like you desire.

Any subsequent debate about what RFC this breaks was purely unintentional. :-}

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