Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!kitty!ethos!gary From: gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: sendmail & rnews Message-ID: <808@ethos.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 12:39:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ethos.808 Posted: Wed Oct 8 12:39:25 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 00:07:38 EDT Organization: Humanities Forum at ethos, Durham, NC Lines: 54 Keywords: mail-news interface I recently installed sendmail on my system (System V) and have had no trouble other than the following: There is a system that I exchange news articles with via a mail route (using sendnews & uurec). In my /usr/lib/aliases file I have aliased rnews to rnews: "|/usr/lib/news/uurec" When the other site sends news to ethos with sendnews, the article gets posted on my system without a hitch, but nevertheless, they get this error message mailed back to them from my MAILER-DAEMON. My system is ethos, and his is dukempd: >From duke!ethos!ethos.UUCP!MAILER-DAEMON Wed Oct 8 07:04:25 1986 Received: by dukempd.UUCP id 27622; Wed Oct 8 07:04:25 1986 Received: by duke (5.51/4.7) id AA18162; Wed, 8 Oct 86 06:27:34 EDT Received: by ethos.UUCP (4.12/UUCP-Project/rel-1.0/09-17-86) id AA00710; 8 Oct 86 03:36:14 EDT (Wed) Date: Wed Oct 8 01:56:48 1986 From: duke!ethos.UUCP!MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail Message-Id: <8610080736.AA00710@ethos.UUCP> To: duke!dukempd!cr ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 Unbalanced '"' ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by ethos.UUCP (4.12/UUCP-Project/rel-1.0/09-17-86) id AA00708; 8 Oct 86 03:36:14 EDT (Wed) Received: by duke (5.51/4.7) id AA13529; Wed, 8 Oct 86 02:01:55 EDT Received: by dukempd.UUCP id 26017; Wed Oct 8 01:56:48 1986 Date: Wed Oct 8 01:56:48 1986 From: Message-Id: <529135008.26017@dukempd.UUCP> Subject: network news article To: duke!ethos!rnews Does anyone know what is going on or how I can stop the error messages from being mailed back to dukempd? Thanks for your help. -- Gary J. Smith {ihnp4,mcnc,duke}!ethos!gary ==================================================================== 5802 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC 27707 voice: 919-493-9575 data: 489-6496