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From: ahmed@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Kamal M. Ahmed)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail configuration file
Message-ID: <6052@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 23 May 89 16:53:54 GMT
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Reply-To: shri%shakti@uunet.uu.net. (H. Shrikumar)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Hi
I am posting  this for a  friend of mine  who does not  have access to
news. If you can help please reply by mail. I have set up the Reply-to
field appropriately.
Kamal...



Help ....

This is shri ( ...shri%shakti@uunet.uu.net ).
I need some help with the sendmail configuartion file.

I have been experimenting with the sendmail configuration file to learn
more of its secrets, as we do not have much documentation on it.

I ran into some problems, hence the following questions. Thanx for any help ...

1. Sendmail has a SYSERR message in it. What causes this to be issued ?
I triggered this off with a uucp mail address rewrite rule that converted
one address into one without the conventional ! sign. 

This was with a mailer called "uucpf", to distiguish it from the usual
uucp mailer. 

How did sendmail trap this ? How does it know it is uucp mail ?
How can I get over this problem ?

2. rmail seems to add the remote hostname to the beginning of the from
address in the mail header. Where does it pick up this informaion from ?
Some hosts on our network do not confirm to the RFC822 format. So some pre-
processing is needed to convert the headers here.

Thanx for all help

Please mail replies to shri%shakti@uunet.uu.net.

-- shri
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   Kamal M. Ahmed                               Internet:ahmed@cs.Buffalo.EDU
S.U.N.Y at Buffalo                              BITNET  :  ahmed@sunybcs.BITNET
                             uucp    :  !{boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!ahmed