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Lotus Notes (was Re: Sendmail Fixkit)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew J Brown)
Sun Feb 26 08:28:32 1995
From: Matthew J Brown <mjb@sophos.com>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 12:17:30 +0100 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <199502251554.JAA19636@samba.worldcom.com> from "bob@unix.worldcom.com" at Feb 25, 95 09:54:38 am
> I haven't looked at the fixkit myself yet, but if it disallows '/' in
> addresses, it's going to cause problems with more than X.400. For
> example, the increasingly-popular Lotus SMTP gateway for Lotus Notes puts
> slashes into addresses of users with hierarchical certifiers, eg
>
> Joe_User/Sales/Acme/US.acmeinc@notes.gateway
>
You don't *absolutely* have to output icky names like this to the world,
however; our outgoing gateway rewrites the addresses to
<initials>@sophos.com. All users here except me do their mail through
Notes. The only way to do this, however, is OS/2 Sendmail sendmail.cf
hackery. (yes, the Lotus Notes SMTP Gateway is a bag on the side of
OS/2 sendmail). It's an ancient version of sendmail, too; there isn't
even support for database macros to do this (more) cleanly.
I personally find it worrying that the Notes smtp gateway won't run on
anything except OS/2 (whose TCP/IP implementation seems to be very flaky)
and absolutely requires OS/2's sendmail instead of having its own
SMTP thing (surely it can't have been too difficult to write their own?),
and even more so that OS/2 sendmail is based on an ancient UNIX version,
no doubt with all the known bugs. The damn thing falls over at least
once a day, too, takes an *age* to page back in every time it gets swapped,
and is basically a *lot* of trouble.
-Matt
