Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!lamont!dale From: dale@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (dale chayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Sendmail, a question on Forwarding host Keywords: sendmail.cf forwarding alzheimers Message-ID: <3591@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 22:09:27 GMT Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory N.Y. Lines: 68 I have discovered that occasionaly my local sendmail configuration is causing problems at my "forwarding host" by creating an odd address. So I poked around with sendmail -v and observed a bit of (what seems to me to be) strange behavior shown in the example below. hp8c is an unknown host, lamont is my "forwarding host" from the DF & CF macros in sendmail.cf I'm using the standard 3.3.1 versions with the additions as explained at the top of sendmail.cf. I'm sure no M4/Sendmail whiz, and I was hoping that someone could point out what's wrong here. I would expect that the constructed address should look like: dan%hp8c.nrl.navy.mil@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu but instead, it creates the address pointed out below. gonzo:/usr/people/dale> /usr/lib/sendmail -v dan@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil Subject: YAT The is a test, throw it out! . dan@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil... Connecting to lamont.ether... 220 lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu Sendmail 3.2/SMI-3.2 ready at Tue, 9 Apr 91 18:02:3 5 EDT >>> HELO gonzo.ldgo.columbia.edu 250 lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu Hello gonzo.ldgo.columbia.edu, pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From: 250 ... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu:dan@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil> ODD PART: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 250 <@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu:dan@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil>... Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 Mail accepted >>> QUIT 221 lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu delivering mail dan@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil... Sent gonzo:/usr/people/dale> Any hints and/or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Dale ========================== -- Dale Chayes Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University Route 9W, Palisades, N.Y. 10964 dale@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu voice: (914) 359-2900 extension 434 fax: (914) 359-6817