helo all,
One or two wrinkes I would like to sort out in our new mail system. This one
manifests in one person's mail getting bounced back and forth between the
mailserver and the localhost (on which it should be delivered) until the number
of hops means it comes to me. the mailserver is Linux exim, the localhost SGI
sendmail.
I would like to know if the header makes sense or not: particularly, addresses
of the form
@ip.address.here:user@somehost
is this gibberish or not? if so, then i have a debugging sub-goal: remove all
traces of said nonsense. else, a pointer to some documentation on how this
syntax is operated on would be really really useful.
Thank you for your time - James.
Included below are Those Headers In Full for the curious and incredulous...
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From: Julia Shepheard <juliash@???>
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Subject: jokes
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