Sendmail problem under Ultrix 4.1

John Haxby jch at hollie.rdg.dec.com
Tue Apr 23 17:55:52 AEST 1991


I don't know how this happens: ruleset four contains:

R$*<$+>$*	$1$2$3		defocus
R@$+:$+:$+	@$1,$2:$3	<route-addr> canonical
R@$+:$+		$@<@$1:$2>	route-addr needs <>

(this says, remove the angle brackets, fix up source-routed
addresses and put the angle brackets back for source routed
addresses).

Even if there is a spare pair of angle brackets on the way into
these rules, the first one would strip them off (in a strange order,
but it would strip them off).

The problem appears to be in the envelope of the message.
Taking a look at sendmail 5.65, I can see exactly the
same problem: I quote:

	smtpmessage("MAIL From: <%s>", m, buf);
and
	smtpmessage("RCPT To: <%s>", m, to->q_user);

By all means log an SPR, but be aware that you are likely
to get nested angle brackets from other MTAs, sigh.

-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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