Ultrix sendmail.cf vs. "Normal" sendmail.cf ???

[Leonard Peirce]

In article <1991Feb13.150918.22387 at unhd.unh.edu> tjb at mozz.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) writes:
>Has anyone addressed the fact that when sending mail from an ultrix machine to an
>address of the form uucphost!user at etherhost, the address is parsed wrong, or at
>least different, then from other machines?  Basically what happens is it gets
>parsed with the ! and @ being of equal precedence.  Other machines defer the !
>and treat uucphost!user as the user mailing to etherhost.

There is a rule in S0 that looks like

R$-!$+                 $#uucp$@$1$:$2          host!...

Comment it out and it will work like you desire.

Any subsequent debate about what RFC this breaks was purely unintentional. :-}

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