On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:02:42PM +0900, Mark Keasling wrote: > > Sendmail is removing the domain part from smtp envelope TO > addresses (RCPT TO) when they are sent to the local deliverer > in my case LMTP. Apparently, there is no way to avoid this > obnoxious behavior. Hacking on sendmail.cf has had no effect.
Yes, sendmail assumes that the domain name is not needed for the envelope recipient for local delivery. > No vacation reply gets sent because lmtpd substitutes "unspecified-domain" > for the domain which was removed by sendmail. Its "to me" check > fails because user@unspecified-domain is definitely not in the > message's headers. Yes, when I was debugging this, I found that CCing the message to user@unspecified-domain would cause vacation to work! > The following patches seem to fix the sieve vacation problem. > It would be nice if these patches could be incorporated into > the main source so that other people who use sendmail can have > vacations too. If someone spots a problem with these patches > or notices a deficiency PLEASE let me know how they should be > fixed as I'll be putting them into production use RSN. I'm using a similar set of patches. I did submit them to the Cyrus maintainers, but they were rejected as unnecessary. > There will be some interactions with aliases where [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > are all equivalent and all are used. Mail sent to one address will > get vacation replies while mail sent to the others will not. I > know of no simple way to solve this unless sendmail is kind enough > to rewrite the addresses in the message header. Sendmail can rewrite header addresses for local delivery. This works well. It's only the envelope recipient that has the domain stripped. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
