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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Strange characters in From: address
Keywords: ^P, Suns, Clix
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.225332.12684@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 22:53:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.214155.8143@infonode.ingr.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Jun21.214155.8143@infonode.ingr.com> ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com writes:
>Intergraph 6505), the From: address gets a ^P appended to it betwixt here
>and there, so that the sendmail process on the mailhub does not recognize
>the address, and proceeds to try to fully qualify it, leaving us with
>
>user@host.dazixco.ingr.com^P.ingr.com
>
>, which is hardly useful.  Does anyone know where a spurious character like
>this can come from?  There are no strangely embedded characters in the 
>/etc/sendmail.cf file on the machine in Boulder, and it is rewriting the
>addresses correctly.

  But there are LOTs of special characters in your 'sendmail.cf'.  Characters
such as $+ or $- or $* or $: etc.  These are all internally coded as single
characters.  Somewhere you have a rule with a misplaced operator.  According
to my sources, ^P is probably $* so you might look for a $* on the RHS of
a rewrite rule somewhere.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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