Mark Tippetts writes:
> One of my mail servers was put in ORBS today. I can't use ORBS myself, but
> I value what they're doing, and I consider the problem that got me there a
> real one. The test we failed involves a header in the format "rcpt
> to:<foo!bar>". qmail-send grabs this address and appends the address in
> .../control/envnoathost, resulting in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This is then
> delivered in the normal way, using MX records, to the primary hub for the
> lynxus.com domain, which runs sendmail. Sendmail does it's thing with the
> UUCP addressing, and I wind up in ORBS.
>
> This seems broken.
Yup. Sendmail shouldn't be gratuitiously interpreting addresses that
arrived over SMTP as if they were UUCP addresses. I would suggest
that you fix your sendmail host, except that I understand fully how
difficult sendmail administration can be.
Instead, fix it on the qmail side. Set control/envnoathost to
something like "nouucp". Then insert "nouucp:alias-nouucp" into
control/virtualdomains. Then create ~alias/.qmail-nouucp-default and
put something like this into it (all on one line of course):
|if echo "$EXT2" | grep !; then bouncesaying "No UUCP addresses here";
else forward $EXT2; fi
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