mailsetup oddities

From: Eli Burke <eburke_at_cslab.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:32:26 -0400 (EDT)

Howdy... I'm hoping one of you might have encountered this problem already
and can assist me.

I've got a number of Alphas running DU4.0. One of them, the NIS server,
is configured via mailsetup and the mail setup program in checklist to
be a mail server and mail hub. It NFS exports /var/spool/mail to the
other machines, which are all set up as mail clients and forward their
mail to the server.

If a user sends mail from any of the machines to the outside world, the
sender's address is correctly set to userid_at_cslab.vt.edu. The problem
comes when they send mail internally to <userid> or even
<userid_at_cslab.vt.edu>. The initial message is delivered fine, but if
you try to reply to it, the reply bounces all over the place, because
it is sent to "userid_at_cslab.vt.edu.nis-cslab-vt.edu"

Telling everyone to set their Reply-To fields isn't really an option,
and I feel as though there is something on the mail server that just
isn't set up quite right. I just don't know enough about sendmail to
determine if it is an option in sendmail.cf or one of the setup programs,
or something else.

-- 
Eli Burke
eburke_at_vt.edu 
http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~eburke/ 
Received on Wed Sep 18 1996 - 23:50:43 NZST

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