Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!stew@lhasa.UUCP From: stew@lhasa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Malformed headers Message-ID: <8404191218.AA26607@harvard.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 07:12:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.484 Posted: Thu Apr 19 07:12:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 01:33:48 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 83 To: harvard!header-people@mit-mc I have recently been involved in setting up a mailsystem connecting HARVARD, a 4.2BSD Unix 780 on the internet, to other machines here at Harvard. All this guff about sendmail config files is starting to hit me; This is a problem we're faced with here. Here is an example of a recent incoming message that illustrates some of the problems. Perhaps someone out there can make some suggestions as to who is to blame for the following headers, and what can be done. The first message is in the exact form that harvard transmitted it. To harvard, our machine appears as a "fake" uucp address; LHASA is a VAX/VMS machine running software which I wrote to pick the necessary files out of Harvard's uucp spool directories and deliver them on the VMS machine. --------------- Begin forwarded message #1 ----------------- >From @MIT-MC.ARPA:@SRI-KL.ARPA:engvax!KVC@cit-vax Thu Apr 19 02:26:57 1984 remote from harvard Received: from cit-vax.ARPA by SRI-KL.ARPA with TCP; Wed 18 Apr 84 22:36:18-PST Received: by cit-vax.ARPA id AA03064 at Wed, 18 Apr 84 16:09:33 pst Date: Wed, 18 Apr 84 16:09:33 pst From: harvard!engvax!KVC@cit-vax.ARPA Message-Id: <8404190009.AA03064@cit-vax.ARPA> To: ."cit-vax!info-vax@sri-kl.arpa"@ENGVAX.ARPA Subject: Re: lost batch jobs... /Kevin Carosso engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX Hughes Aircraft Co. --------------- End forwarded message #1 ----------------- For those who are interested, this is the form the message takes when it appears in my VMS mail file. --------------- Begin forwarded message #2 ----------------- From: HARVARD!@MIT-MC.ARPA:@SRI-KL.ARPA:engvax!KVC@cit-vax 19-Apr-1984 02:26 To: ."cit-vax!info-vax@sri-kl.arpa"@ENGVAX.ARPA Subj: Re: lost batch jobs... Received: by lhasa via VAXNET; Thu Apr 19 02:44:15 1984 Received: from cit-vax.ARPA by SRI-KL.ARPA with TCP; Wed 18 Apr 84 22:36:18-PST Received: by cit-vax.ARPA id AA03064 at Wed, 18 Apr 84 16:09:33 pst Date: Wed, 18 Apr 84 16:09:33 pst From: harvard!engvax!KVC@cit-vax.ARPA Message-Id: <8404190009.AA03064@cit-vax.ARPA> /Kevin Carosso engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX Hughes Aircraft Co. --------------- End forwarded message #2 ----------------- Now. The problems should be obvious. I want to respond to an address something like harvard!"engvax!kvc"@cit-vax, I think. And if I want to CC the list, it does NOT want to go to "cit-vax!info-vax@sri-kl.arpa"@ENGVAX.ARPA ENGVAX isn't even on ARPA!!! Someone has to translate these to things like: <@HARVARD: engvax!kvc@CIT-VAX.ARPA> and <@CIT-VAX: INFO-VAX@SRI-KL.ARPA>. Are my interpretations of RFC822 correct? I assume that the problems on both ends could be corrected by changes to the sendmail config files... I should of course say that I am not blaming anyone at CIT; the same sort of malformed header will be visible on the message that you receive from me. Stew Rubenstein ARPA: lhasa!stew@harvard.arpa UUCP: {allegra!ima,decvax!genrad!wjh12}!harvard!lhasa!stew MAIL: Harvard University Chemical Labs 12 Oxford St. Box 100 Cambridge, MA 02138