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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Need some subtle help....
Message-ID: <1134@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 19:46:59 EST
Article-I.D.: adobe.1134
Posted: Fri Feb  7 19:46:59 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 03:00:34 EST
Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto
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I am having a little bit of a problem with sendmail rules.  In
particular, local mail across ethernet is being troublesome.

What I want to do is to send mail from one machine (call it
"caslon") to another machine (call it "adobe") in such a way as to
remove the host name from the From: field and Return-Path: fields.
This way, mail between hosts can be transparent, and mail can be
sent to just 'username' and it will get to the correct place.

In Ruleset 11 there is a rule which allows the sending mailer to
tack on its hostname:

R$+			$@$1<@$w>			tack on our hostname

This rule seems to be the offender.  If the rule is commented out,
then mail from caslon sent *through* adobe to the outside world
(like UUCP mail to a neighboring host) works fine, and there is no
mention of "caslon" in the message, except in the "Received-From:"
lines.  That is fine.  The problem is that if the mailer on adobe
things that it is local mail, it drops it on the floor.  In
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog the line to=greid, stat=Sent is completely
missing, and the mail is vapor:

"/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog":
Feb  7 16:02:15 localhost: 19861 sendmail: AA19861: message-id=<8602080008.AA07685@caslon.UUCP>
Feb  7 16:02:16 localhost: 19861 sendmail: AA19861: from=<greid>, size=202, class=0

If I put the above-mentioned sendmail rule back in, the mail is
delivered fine on adobe, but the from field looks like:

From: greid@caslon@caslon

which I consider to be unnaceptable.  My question:  is there some
way to make this work reasonably?  Can I fool my mailer on adobe to
deliver these messages, even though it thinks it got them over the
ethernet from itself?

Thanks for any and all help.  I am kinda stumped.

Glenn Reid
  Adobe Systems
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