Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: UUCP re-writting help Message-ID: <1991Feb22.195312.22438@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 22 Feb 91 19:53:12 GMT References: <1991Feb22.170204.23925@wdl1.wdl.loral.com> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 34 In article <1991Feb22.170204.23925@wdl1.wdl.loral.com> wrl@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Bill Lewandowski) writes: >Hi, >One of our uccp connections wants to receive their mail in domain >format. They also want to see the return address in domain format. >We modified the .cf file as follows. The problem is that sendmail >complains about no "!" in a uucp envelope (deliver.c). If the recipient site can accept domain format in the envelope sender address (the 'From_' line), this is easy. Just remove the 'U' flag from the mailer definition, and use mailer specified rewrite rules that generate domain style addresses. The error message you received was caused by the 'U' flag. With this flag, 'sendmail' wants to create a 'From_' line of the form: 'From address date remote from nodename' and looks for the first '!' to determine 'nodename'. Remove the 'U' flag and the error message will go away. Whether the receiving domain can really accept domain style envelope senders remains to be tested. There is a change that a seemingly random subset of the messages will be reprocessed to: 'From uucp@receiving.site'. Best keep your eyes open for that. If you wind up needing to use bang format on the envelope, but wanting domain format on the header, the best approach is to install an IDA version of sendmail which supports separate envelope and header rewrite rules. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940