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Re: 6.3A: /usr/lib/sendmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jun 25 08:48:28 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 08:48:12 -0400
To: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [13] Richard Basch's message of Sun, 25 Jun 89 06:54:23 -0400,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 06:54:23 -0400
> Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Address: 3 Ames Street Cambridge, MA 02139
> Phone: (617) 225-6381
> ... the following rules certainly did not do what I expected:
> R$*<@$+>$*:$* $#tcp$@$2$:$1<@$4>$3 It resolved, use tcp
> R$*<@$+>$* $#tcp$@$2$:$1<@$2>$3 It resolved, use tcp
> The result of a verbose mail is:
> testers-mtg@menelaus.local... Connecting to menelaus.mit.edu (tcp)...
> 220 MENELAUS.MIT.EDU Sendmail 5.45/4.7 ready at Sun, 25 Jun 89 05:33:44 EDT
> >>> HELO ODIE.MIT.EDU
> 250 MENELAUS.MIT.EDU Hello ODIE.MIT.EDU, pleased to meet you
> >>> MAIL From:<root@ODIE.MIT.EDU>
> 250 <root@ODIE.MIT.EDU>... Sender ok
> >>> RCPT To:<testers-mtg@menelaus.MIT.EDU.local>
> 250 <testers-mtg@menelaus.MIT.EDU.local>... Recipient ok
> >>> DATA
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> >>> .
> 250 Ok
> >>> QUIT
> 221 MENELAUS.MIT.EDU closing connection
> testers-mtg@menelaus.local... Sent
> If I change the above rules to:
> R$*<@$+>$*:$* $#tcp$@$2$:$1@$4$3 It resolved, use tcp
> R$*<@$+>$* $#tcp$@$2$:$1@$2$3 It resolved, use tcp
> a verbose mail is now:
> testers-mtg@menelaus.local... Connecting to menelaus.mit.edu (tcp)...
> 220 MENELAUS.MIT.EDU Sendmail 5.45/4.7 ready at Sun, 25 Jun 89 05:43:31 EDT
> >>> HELO ODIE.MIT.EDU
> 250 MENELAUS.MIT.EDU Hello ODIE.MIT.EDU, pleased to meet you
> >>> MAIL From:<probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> 250 <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>... Sender ok
> >>> RCPT To:<testers-mtg@menelaus.local>
> 250 <testers-mtg@menelaus.local>... Recipient ok
> >>> DATA
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> >>> .
> 250 Ok
> >>> QUIT
> 221 MENELAUS.MIT.EDU closing connection
> testers-mtg@menelaus.local... Sent
> Why is it that the addressee in the mailer specification is being
> canonicalized? My change will get around the problem with the
> machine.LOCAL specification used on Athena servers, but it certainly is
> not the correct solution in the general case (ie. wanting to
> differentiate between CNAMEs).
I should have probably mentioned what the various sections of the rule
was...
R$*<@$+>$*:$* $#tcp$@$2$:$1<@$4>$3 It resolved, use tcp
R$*<@$+>$* $#tcp$@$2$:$1<@$2>$3 It resolved, use tcp
$1: addressee
$2: canonicalized hostname
$3: any special suffixes, ie. .LOCAL, .POP
$4: non-canonicalized hostname
-Richard
