Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bywater!acheron!clarke
From: clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail "rewrite: expansion too long" error?
Message-ID: <403@acheron.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 88 14:08:47 GMT
References: <1185@cfa204.cfa250.harvard.edu>
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From article <1185@cfa204.cfa250.harvard.edu>, by thakur@cfa250.harvard.edu (Manavendra K. Thakur):
- Anyway, what happens is that occasionally sendmail will get into this
- funny state where it starts to reject valid mail addresses.  It gives
- errors like this one:
-    <<< HELO cfa213.HARVARD.EDU
-    <<< MAIL From:<maria@cfa213>
-    554 rewrite: expansion too long
- I can't imagine why sendmail can't parse <maria@cfa213>, which is a
- perfectly valid address on our system.  I tried feeding this address

I get the same thing - using sendmail 5.59 from Berkeley with the
IDA sendmail patches from arisia.  What's really awful is that it
doesn't happen all the time.  I can send myself mail from another
machine and 7 out of 8 times it works perfectly.  The eighth time
it blows up as above.

It looks like it keeps tacking on the domain (where xxx.com is the 
domain):

clarke.xxx.com.xxx.com.xxx.com .....

Oh well, at least I'm not alone ... 8-(
-- 
Ed Clarke
uunet!bywater!acheron!clarke