Summary: Sendmail Error

From: Allen, Michael A. (Michael.Allen@jhuapl.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 11 1999 - 08:04:19 CST


The original posting is at the end.

Solution: R$*<>$* $@$n (see details below)

Thx Gang! -maa-

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Tim Carlson wrote:
Yeah.. install sendmail 8.9.3 instead.. it is finally a snap to configure
There is no longer any need to play with rewrite rulls unless you have
a truely bizarre configuration

Robert Rose wrote:
I used

R$*<>$* $@$n turn into Mailer-Daemon

at the start of the S3 Rewriting rules and it seems to have stopped it
happening.

I used Steve Wardle's solution (extensive, but effective):
SRDB ID: 16242

SYNOPSIS: What to do when systems don't understand <@@domain>?

DETAIL DESCRIPTION:

How can you workaround sendmail generating an illegal address
of the form <@@domain>?

For example:

    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
 ... while talking to tcp30.dx.deere.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<@@deerpark.com>
 <<< 501 <>... Illegal MAIL sender syntax
 554 DXX21.DD1153@TEST.DEERPARK.COM... Remote protocol error

SOLUTION SUMMARY:

Tweak ruleset 3 in the sendmail.cf file:

S3

# handle "from:<>" special case
#R$*<>$* $@@ turn into magic
token
R$*<>$* $@$n turn into Mailer-Daemon

This is necessary since some mailers do not understand the importance of a
magic token.
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> Solaris 2.51 original sendmail version.
>
> Approximatley every four days the following error message displays on the
> console:
>
> Mar 10 11:12:04 myhostname.jhuapl.edu sendmail[7662]: LAA07661: SMTP MAIL
> protocol
> error: 553 malformed address: <@@myhostname.jhuapl.edu>
>
>
> I suspect my mailer is misconfigured and causing some of my users' mail to
> be lost. I plan to add the following to ruleset 4 to correct this
> problem:
>
> R$* <@> $@
>
>
> Can anyone give a definitive solution for this? I'll summarize. -maa-



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