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From: ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com (Ryan Waldron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Strange characters in From: address
Keywords: ^P, Suns, Clix
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.161442.15435@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 16:14:42 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.225332.12684@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun21.214155.8143@infonode.ingr.com> ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com writes:

|> >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.

Is this guy good, or what?  It was just as he said, and I fixed it right up.
Whew!  Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

-- 
Ryan Waldron ||| ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com ||| ...!uunet!ingr.com!waldronr

"You read me Shakespeare on the Rolling Thames, That Old River Poet
	 that never, ever ends.
 Our Thumping hearts hold the Ravens in, And keep the tower from tumbling." -KB