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From: ellozy@farber.dfci.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail 5.65 with unqualified names
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.212656.19800@Think.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 21:26:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.023129.827@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

Summarizes my problem with sendmail adding $D to unqualified host names
in the To: and Cc: lines, even when a domain lookup would have given a
different domain.

>  This is a bug in the Berkeley sendmail.  It was reported last October.

Then he describes the bug.

>  The problem is corrected in the IDA versions, with a change to daemon.c.
>You could probably extract a patch from the RCS archives, but it is probably
>entangled with other patches.  Of course you could just use the IDA versions
>and use a dbm domaintable lookup for a more reliable approach to local
>qualification.

Has anyone fixed the bug in plain sendmail?  I know that I will soon need
to learn all about IDA, but right now I want to be able to run a better
plain sendmail.

How simple is it to go from a standard sendmail to IDA?  If it is easy enough
I might do it.  I am using Ultrix and I believe the IDA I need is the one
from UIUC?

Thanks.

Mohamed