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- From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
- Subject: Re: dxmail on ULTRIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.142027.21114@decuac.dec.com>
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- Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
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- Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <1992Nov11.142812.9171@panix.com> <1drnfhINN3cj@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Nov12.182035.24694@decuac.dec.com> <1e15ghINN2oi@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:20:27 GMT
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-
- If I have an address
-
- something!else%host.UUCP@domain
-
- while it is ugly, and I'd rather die than generate such an address, the
- assumption is that "domain" will handle what is on the right hand side and
- if it generated it, it must be able to handle it.
-
- While all of this is ugly, it is allowed because it is on the
- left of the @ sign. There is only one way to handle the above address.
- Send it to "domain" for "domain" to handle "something!else%host.UUCP" however
- it wants to. It is not a question of defined or undefined. I have no
- business looking at what is clearly the localpart of the address.
-
- The case in question was a sendmail.cf that erroneously looked at this address
- and decided it should go to "something". This is wrong. The sendmail.cf
- in question actually took the address (again, using the above example) and
- changed it to
-
- something!else%host.UUCP<@domain>
-
- correctly focusing on "domain" and then decided, no, there is a bang in
- there so then it changed it to the erroneous:
-
- else%host.UUCP@domain<@something.UUCP>
-
- Based on that, it sent it via the wrong transport to the wrong host. The
- corrected sendmail.cf that I sent fixed this problem.
-
- The point is that anything to the left of the @ is up to the host to the
- right of the @ to handle. You -- and the ultrix sendmail.cf shipped with
- the product -- are breaking the rules. You are peaking. No peaking allowed.
-