From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 15 04:05:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA21034 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mh1.cts.com (root@mh1.cts.com [205.163.24.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA21025 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from io.cts.com (io.cts.com [198.68.174.34]) by mh1.cts.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA14603 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mdavis@localhost) by io.cts.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA02635 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:05:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Morgan Davis Message-Id: <199707151105.EAA02635@io.cts.com> Subject: sendmail question To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:05:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just installed a fresh 2.2.2 system and am wondering why the default sendmail.cf (with only a smart relay host change) is trying to locally deliver a message addressed to something that looks like the following: To: Brock.Meeks@MSNBC.COM (Meeks, Brock) The local sendmail is bouncing this back claiming: 550 Brock... User unknown Why is it even attempting to parse out "First" from the whole address as a separate user? Interestingly, the intended offsite recipient does get a copy of the outgoing message, and all other address formats I've tried work. It generates a second bounce, too: 550 ... Host unknown (Name server: msnbc.com host not found) It's, of course, MX'd, but I find it odd that the default sendmail.cf that ships with FreeBSD would not be able to correctly parse this address. Perhaps this is a problem with the elm in packages-2.2.2? Any ideas? --Morgan