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From: mjf@mjm.mjm.com (Mark Fresolone)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail works, but complains...
Message-ID: <1940002@mjm.mjm.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 22:23:23 GMT
Organization: Melillo Consulting, Somerset, NJ
Lines: 33

I think I'm just hosed.
My system in an HP9000/800 with HP-UX 7.0.  I use the HP-UX sendmail
(i.e.  no source).  I have a UUCP link to a site with internet access,
and have sucessfully routed unknown UUCP and all RFC 822 destinations
to my gateway site.  Sendmail also recognizes our site as an RFC 822
destination for incoming mail.

I wanted to make one last change to have an RFC 822 "From:" address,
instead of a UUCP one.  (I was actually asked to provide this by our
gateway site.)  The following changes to Ruleset 13 (the uucp mailer)
in the HP-UX sendmail.cf accomplishes this successfully:

< R$+			$@$1<@$k.UUX>	user => my_host!user
---
> # Send internet-style "From:" address
> R$+			$:$1<@$w>	add local domain (Site-hidden)

Mail gets routed and tagged successfuly, but there is one annoying
catch - when a user sends mail through the gateway the following error
message is mailed back by sendmail:

	Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
(This is false ----------------^                      )

   	----- Transcript of session follows -----
	554 No ! in UUCP: mjf@mjm.mjm.com
	....

There seems no way to get around this without going back to a UUCP-style
From address.  Any clues?

Mark Fresolone					mjf@mjm.com,  rutgers!mjm!mjf
Melillo Consulting/MJM Software			908-873-0075/Fax 908-873-2250