TO Peter Jeffe RE: RS/6000 Sendmail.cf

[Dan Watts]

I tried to email the following response to Peter Jeffe but the mailer in
Austin wouldn't resolve the email address 'jeffe' so I'm posting the
reply instead.
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Peter,

  I was reading your news posting about forwarding unknown hosts to
  a mail forwarder.  In using our RS/6000's in a combined UUCP and
  TCP/IP network, I ran into that problem.  (I think the news subject
  your reply is on was from my origonal posting).  Anyway, I also had
  a problem of when a local tcp/ip node sent mail via the RS/6000 to
  my uucp gateway, the reply path got inverted.  The RS/6000 sent out
  the from in a form:

     rs6000!user at tcphost

  When the gateway got this, it translated it to 'tcphost!rs6000!user'
  which is not what I needed.  I wanted it to say 'rs6000!tcphost!user'.
  My eventual solution, was to replace the sendmail.cf that came on the
  RS/6000 with the one that comes with the SGI Personal Iris.  After
  removing some option settings that don't apply to the RS/6000 and
  changing the name of the local mail delivery program, it all runs fine
  now.  If you'd be interested in seeing what SGI has done with their
  sendmail.cf, I'd be glad to send a copy to you.

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