[11186] in Athena Bugs
Workstation sendmail.cf strips quotes in addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Oct 10 18:16:26 1993
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1993 18:16:41 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@security.ov.com>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU
The mailer definition for the SMTP mailer in the sendmail.cf used by
Athena workstations is as follows:
Mether, P=[IPC], F=msDFMueCX, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h
The 's' in the list of flags tells sendmail (quoting from "Sendmail
Installation and Operation Guide") to "strip quote characters off of
the address before calling the mailer."
It shouldn't be doing that. Some SMTP addresses need the quotes left
in place, e.g., if mail is being sent to an X.400 address which starts
with a slash. Otherwise, when the mail is sent, it is sent as
/foo=bar/baz=frelt/etc./@x400.gateway.host
instead of as
"/foo=bar/baz=frelt/etc./"@x400.gateway.host
The gateway host then might reject the address with "Cannot mail
directly to files" or a similar error.
jik
