Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac,mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Help! Sendmail debugging problem Message-ID: <1991Mar19.004418.24764@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 00:44:18 GMT References: <1991Mar18.230044.6450@ee.rochester.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 32 In article <1991Mar18.230044.6450@ee.rochester.edu> Mark Sirota writes: >Okay, so I've written this slick new sendmail.cf that I really like and that >does everything I want and is really short and easy to read and low >maintenance and all kinds of other wonderful things. It only has one >problem - it doesn't work. > As they say, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. >I suspect that something is happening with the local-mailer rewriting >rulesets, which fully qualify the names, changing "msirota" to >"msirota@ee.rochester.edu". >Now, I don't see why that should cause a problem. I mean, it has already If you try searching for "msirota@ee.rochester.edu" in /etc/passwd you will discover why there is a problem. >resolved to the local mailer, and $u should be "msirota" rather than >"msirota@ee.rochester.edu", right? Or is $u then passed through the >mailer-specific ruleset before final delivery or something? I thought that Well, it resolved to the local mailer, with $:msirota. That is not the same as saying that $u is "msirota. The 'user' obtained when you resolved to a mailer is passed through ruleset 2, then the mailer specific ruleset, then ruleset 4. It is this final value which may eventually become $u. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940