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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Two Different Sendmail (.cf?) problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.190142.9199@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 19:01:42 GMT
References: <cluther.677347807@sonne>
Reply-To: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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In article <cluther.677347807@sonne>, cluther@sonne.cnns.unt.edu (Clay Luther) writes:
|>Problem 1)
|>  On a SunSparc330 (4.2) running Sendmail.mx, all my addresses from the machine
|>  appear as user%sonne.cnns.unt.edu@vaxa.acs.unt.edu.  The vax is the host I
|>  check mx records on.  Why *must* it munge my address so?  sonne.cnns.unt.edu
|>  is registered, but this % address sometimes causes other smtp mailers not to
|>  recognize me.  Annoying.

This is being done by one or the other sendmail -- probably the
sendmail.cf on the vax.  Run it in test mode and see what ruleset is
adding it.

|>
|>Problem 2)
|>  On a Masscomp 5700 running Sendmail, the machine does not recognize it's
|>  fqdn.  For example, it recognizes user@nervous, but not
|>  user@nervous.cnns.unt.edu.  It *does* fully qualify mail going off the
|>  machine (so that when I mail from it, my address is
|>  cluther@nervous.cnns.unt.edu), but won't accept that address on return.  Also
|>  annoying.     

WHat does the command hostname return?  Again, your sendmail.cf
file needs to be made to know that nervous.cnns.unt.edu is it's name.

Fred