Re: [EXIM] dnews error calling sendmail shows up with exim

On Wed 25 Mar 1998, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> $ sendmail -t paul@???
> To: paul@???
> Subject: test
>
> bla

I'd sent a lot more than this in my message, but the example I'd pasted
had a dot in the first column; I guess some MTA somewhere interpreted that
as EOD. Ouch.

Here's my message again, now without the dot:

We have a NetBSD 1.3 box here ("leobsd"), with sendmail 8.8.8.
I did this:

$ sendmail -t paul@???
To: paul@???
Subject: test

bla
"dot" :-)

Both paul@wau and paul@murphy got a copy. This is the header as received
at the wau.mis.ah.nl address:

Received: from waubel.wau.mis.ah.nl ([141.93.32.17]) by pcpaul.wau.mis.ah.nl
     with smtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yHqwW-000VQXC
    (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:14:12 +0100 (CET)
Received: by waubel.wau.mis.ah.nl
    via sendmail (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.2)
    id <m0yHqwR-0001fTC> for paul@???;
    Wed, 25 Mar 98 15:14 MET
Received: from ahns.mis.ah.nl by waubel.wau.mis.ah.nl
    via sendmail (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.2) with smtp
    id <m0yHqwR-0001fNC> for <paul@???>;
    Wed, 25 Mar 98 15:14 MET
Received: from leobsd.wau.mis.ah.nl by ahns.mis.ah.nl with smtp
        (Smail3.1.28.1 #114) id m0yHqzW-00031cC; Wed, 25 Mar 98 15:17 MET
Received: (from paul@localhost) by leobsd.wau.mis.ah.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA049
+50 for paul@???; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:13:38 +0100 (CET)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:13:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Paul Slootman <paul@???>
Message-Id: <199803251413.PAA04950@???>
To: paul@???

Subject: test3


This is the header as received at murphy.nl:

Received: from ahns.mis.ah.nl (ahns.mis.ah.nl [141.93.32.3])
        by murphy.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA26440
        for <paul@???>; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:14:35 +0100
Received: from leobsd.wau.mis.ah.nl by ahns.mis.ah.nl with smtp
        (Smail3.1.28.1 #114) id m0yHqzW-00031cC; Wed, 25 Mar 98 15:17 MET
Received: (from paul@localhost) by leobsd.wau.mis.ah.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA049
+50 for paul@???; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:13:38 +0100 (CET)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:13:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Paul Slootman <paul@???>
Message-Id: <199803251413.PAA04950@???>
To: paul@???
Subject: test3

The roundabout routing for the wau.mis.ah.nl address is because leobsd
has ahns.mis.ah.nl as smarthost, and waubel.wau.mis.ah.nl is the MX host
for the wau.mis.ah.nl as far as ahns is concerned (don't ask).
*.mis.ah.nl is behind a firewall.

I'm not sure exactly how to interpret sendmail's behaviour, but in short
both addresses receive mail.


Paul Slootman
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