| Title: | SEAL |
| Moderator: | GALVIA::SMITH |
| Created: | Mon Mar 21 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1989 |
| Total number of notes: | 8209 |
Howdy
I've got a customer w/ afwu 2.1 w/ smtpxd 1.27.1.1 who experienced a
problem with an endless mail loop between the firewall and the internal
mailhub. The internal mailhub is a VMS/Multinet system running
Innosoft's PMDF smtp code. He has selected the "remove node name from
mail headers" option in the firewall's mail configuration.
He has users outside of the firewall who send mail and have it relayed
to the firewall. If they send mail to an address like "user@aol" it
gets to the firewall, ruleset S7 will convert the address to
"[email protected]" and deliver the message to the internal mail hub.
The internal mail hub is not configured to recognize "*.domain" as local
mail and relays the message back to the firewall. SMTPXD strips the
"Received:" line from the internal mail hub and the message is sent back
to the internal mailhub, looping endlessly and bringing a vax 7620 to its
knees.
The workaround was to change the smtpxd.strip_headers option in
smtpxd.conf to FALSE and leave sendmail.cf configured to rewrite from
addresses as "user@domain". Apparently PMDF has to know each host to
consider local within a domain and could not be set up with a wildcard rule
as in sendmail to consider *.domain as local.
Is it possible to get a version of SMTPXD that only strips headers from
outbound mail or as suggested in note 1637.4 replaces the hostnames w/
dummy entries leaving the Recevied headers?
Thanks in advance
Danny Sheaffer
[email protected]
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| 1752.1 | Correct the mail address ... | QUICHE::PITT | Alph a ha is better than no VAX! | Wed Feb 05 1997 08:18 | 8 |
user@aol is NOT a correct Internet mail address. All such addresses
have at least one dot in them!!! As a result, the firewall correctly
says that the sender forgot to put the domain name on, adds it, and
then delivers the mail inside ...
The correct mail address should be [email protected], I think ...
T
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