Ultrix sendmail.cf vs. "Normal" sendmail.cf ???
Leonard Peirce
peirce at gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Thu Feb 14 04:54:22 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb13.150918.22387 at unhd.unh.edu> tjb at mozz.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) writes:
>Has anyone addressed the fact that when sending mail from an ultrix machine to an
>address of the form uucphost!user at etherhost, the address is parsed wrong, or at
>least different, then from other machines? Basically what happens is it gets
>parsed with the ! and @ being of equal precedence. Other machines defer the !
>and treat uucphost!user as the user mailing to etherhost.
There is a rule in S0 that looks like
R$-!$+ $#uucp$@$1$:$2 host!...
Comment it out and it will work like you desire.
Any subsequent debate about what RFC this breaks was purely unintentional. :-}
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