Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:2979 comp.mail.headers:675 comp.mail.uucp:6333 alt.sys.sun:3370 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!milton!ogicse!qiclab!m2xenix!quagga!proxima!jsd From: jsd@proxima.UUCP (Jeremy Gryttpype Druker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.uucp,alt.sys.sun Subject: Re: Help! sendmail rewriting 'a@b.uucp' addresses in SMTP environment Message-ID: <4594@proxima.UUCP> Date: 4 Apr 91 17:50:55 GMT Article-I.D.: proxima.4594 References: Organization: FLAGSHIP Wide Area Networks - Cape Town Lines: 24 ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod) wondered about sendmail rewriting user@host addresses as host!user, or host!user@host... I think I recall similar behaviour on proxima at one stage, but it was around that time that we replaced sendmail with smail ;-) It's a bit hazy, but I think I figured out that sendmail did indeed have "prior knowledge" of uucp - over and above the sendmail.cf file - and rewrote addresses accordingly. There may me a mailer flag involved in this, but I've just checked the FM and nothing rings any bells. If the thought of trudging through the sendmail.cf file isn't utterly appealing, there is a package called Ease that appeared recently in alt.sources, which claims to be able to translate a sendmail.cf file into human-readable form, and then back again. Mail me if you don't have it there. -J ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a distant and second-hand set of | Jeremy Druker dimensions; on an astral plane that | jsd@proxima.UUCP was never meant to fly... | ...!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!proxima!jsd --------------- - Terry Pratchett ----------------------------------------