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Re: Zmailer SMTP: Anal retentive or correct?



On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> We have a few sites that get mail via UUCP, typically the uucp name is
> foo and the domain name is foo.com or foo.org. Recently I've noticed
> that some smtp receivers have been rejecting mail from these sites
> because the name is not fully qualified. I grumbled, because I assumed
> it was another revision to the ever imperfect sendmail.
> 
> However, tonight I had occasion to try to manually send one of these
> pieces of mail (to parc.xerox.com), and guess what, it's a zmailer
> site.
> 
> I can't believe this is the correct behavior - has this been added to
> zmailer recently - our smtpserver certianly has *never* done this!
> 
> In any case, is there something I can do here as a hack to fix this
> problem? My success rate in getting over worked admins to change what
> looks like a working config to them is less than nil...

Exmaples always help - especially an SMTP session showing the "problem".

If I understand you correctly, those zmailer systems are correct.  If you're
sending out mail from user@host with no FQDN then you're a naughty boy.

A trick I used when I was at JHU and we had numerous tiny little UUCP
neighbors was to put them into a uucp.jhu.edu domain and re-write things as
they went through each way.  That made everybody inside and outside happy.

Don't ask to see how I did it because it was pretty ugly - as I recall I
modified rmail to rewrite the incoming UUCP mail on the fly into the
uucp.jhu.edu domain...

Then again, that was a much older version of ZMAILER (PM - Pre-Matti).  He
might have added some little gem that will do this for you.

-Andy

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