Why is sendmail rewriting incoming adresses like this?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sat Oct 22 15:43:35 PDT 2005


stan wrote:
> I've got the in tree sendmail set up on a 4.11-RELEASE machine, and I'm
> seeing somethign I do not understand.
> 
> If I send it mail with a To that looks like this:
> 
> fo at xx.yy.com
> 
> It's getting rewriten to:
> 
> foo at yy.com

I'd guess your virtusertable is doing it, but remove the -o flags ("hash -o 
...") since that option prevents you from seeing errors with them.  Do 
something like this:

   echo "3,0 foo at xx.yy.com" | sendmail -bt -d0

-- 
-Chuck



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