Re: Picons recursion bug in sgnus

["Sudish Joseph" <sudish@VNET.IBM.COM>]

Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@TWI.TUDelft.NL> writes:
> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> > Hans> From: Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff>
> >
> > This looks like a bogus From: line.  The stuff within the angle
> > brackets must have an ``@'' sign somewhere, according to RFC822.
> > That's still no excuse for a crash though.
>
> I'll track down our system administrator today, and see what he has to
> say for himself :-)

He doesn't have to say anything. :-)  If I recall correctly, the
message you supplied was sent from a local user.  As such, you can't
take it to the sysadmin as violating 822.

822>     Note:  This standard is NOT intended to dictate the internal for-
822>            mats  used  by sites, the specific message system features
822>            that they are expected to support, or any of  the  charac-
822>            teristics  of  user interface programs that create or read
822>            messages.

Sendmail has an option to canonicalize local addresses, but it's not
on by default:

[from cf/README]
--------------------------------------------------
always_add_domain
                Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
                mail.  Normally it is not added unless it is already
                present.
--------------------------------------------------

-Sudish "will quote for food" Joseph