late SUMMARY:lp sending mails in uucp style

From: Padmanabhan Ramadurai (durai@head-cfa.harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 15:44:07 CDT


Original Question:

> Hi,
>
> Recently, I upgraded my sendmail to later a version with
> the feature nouucp enabled. Now I notice that mails
> generated by lp about printer issues are coded with
> uucp style addressing and mail delivery is failing
> because of non-availability of uucp support in the
> new sendmail.
> Do I need to reconfigure my sendmail with uucp support
> or can make lp to use smtp standard addressing?
> I would prefer the later if possible.
>
> will summarize.
> P.Ramadurai

Got a prompt response from
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
along with the necessary rule set, which solved my problem.

Thank you Matthew..

>Here is the entire ruleset, so you can see the rule in context.
>
>S3 # local users made to look like they are from the hub
>R$*<$*<$*>$*>$* $3 denest
>R$*<$+>$* $2 basic RFC822 parsing
>R$*<>$* $n RFC1123 <>
>R$- $@ $1 @ $m user => user@domain
>R$+@$+ $: $1 @ $[$2$] canonify the hostname
>R$+@$=w.$m $@ $1 @ $m user@thishost.domain => user@domain
>R$+@$=w $@ $1 @ $m user@thishost => user@domain
>R$+!$+ $@ $>3 $2 @ $1 host!user => user@host
>R$+%$+ $@ $>3 $1 @ $2 user%host => user@host
>
> Matthew Lee Stier

Hope lp daemon stops using uucp soon...

thanks
P.Ramadurai



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