Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:3127 comp.unix.ultrix:7007 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!cutmcvax!peter From: peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,vmsnet.mail.pmdf,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Problems with relaying email... Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 16:58:27 GMT References: <1991Apr24.134148.24430@ucunx1.san.uc.edu> <1991Apr24.141509.21301@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Usenet News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article <1991Apr24.134148.24430@ucunx1.san.uc.edu> Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu writes: >> >> I'm having some problems with mail from my Ultrix 4.1 system. >>Apparently, the headers aren't coming out quite right. The "real" From: >>header seems to be okay, since it comes out as username@ucunix.san.uc.edu >>(as it should). However, up above this in the headers is another line >>that contains username@ucunix. The name of this header line is called >>either From or Return-path:, depending on the receiving machine. When >>it's a Return-path line, the address is enclosed in <>. > This sounds like a configuration error on the Ultrix system. It is the >responsibility of that system to ensure that all mail leaving the system >has proper return address, meaning fully qualified domain names. You >will need to look at the mailer definition for the mailer being used to >send out this mail. The mailer definition line begins with 'M', and you >can determine which mailer is being used by sending mail with /usr/ucb/Mail >using the '-v' (verbose) option. From my experience, the ultrix sendmail has some very bizare "features". Normal sendmail used the $j macro as the fully qualified domain name.. But ultrix uses $j as the hostname only, and selectively decides if and when to add the domain name.... I had all sorts of trouble, and nothing seemed to cure it.. So we junked the Ultrix (BTW ver 3.0) version and got Sendmail 5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 and are Extremely happy with it... If you can get it, USE IT! >-- >=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= > Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science > Northern Illinois Univ. > DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940 -- Peter Wemm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter@cs.curtin.edu.au (Home) +61-9-450-5243 Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers. (Dan Zerkle)