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Subject: RE: More issues, some patches
From: "Brian L. Heess" <brian @ thru . net>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:09:50 -0500
To: "Oliver Xymoron" <oxymoron @ waste . org>
Cc: <majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM>
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Oliver Xymoron, Monday, December 13, 1999 1:11 PM:

> > I thought sendmail's expanding owner- addresses *was* the reason for the
> > comma.
>
> I'm not sure what the problem you're pointing to is. Is it that people can
> do an EXPN remotely?

No, it's that if you do not put the comma in there, sendmail ends up writing
a receieved line containing the previously unknown to the world at large
alias you are using to get majordomo/resend to process the message.

> For me, it wasn't working _with_ the comma. Majordomo thought it was
> getting invoked for a different domain than the one it should have been -
> the next in the alias file in fact. I sent it a command at foo.org, it
> comes back with a response from bar.org. Since Majordomo internally
> shouldn't know what domains it runs on except by the command line
> argument, the screw-up had to be internal to sendmail. Taking out the
> comma appears to have solved the problem.

That sounds like a complete side-effect of something else.

> System in question has sendmail 8.9.x.

Weird!

-Brian




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