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List:       gauntlet-user
Subject:    Re: Occasional header re-write problem
From:       geek () midway ! com (Erik Van Riper)
Date:       1997-10-30 14:39:09
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John Cosimano wrote:
> 
> 
> Here's our configuration: Pentium running BSD 2.1 and Gauntlet 3.2.
> Running split-horizon DNS, advertising the outside interface as MX for our
> domain, and stripping hostname out of outgoing mail, ie
> user@pc500.foobar.com becomes user@foobar.com. I hope this is enough
> relevant configuration information...
> 
> The problem is this: our primary e-mail package for internal
> communication is Novell GroupWise. Against my better judgement, some also
> use GroupWise to send/receive mail over the Internet. This works fine as
> we have an smtp gateway for GW set up. The problem is that very
> infrequently, the headers appear not to get rewritten. Then remote users
> reply to the piece of e-mail and it bounces because it is sent to
> user@ngw.cna.org, not user@cna.org. To my knowledge, this has never
> occured with any other host internally (for example, there are many of us
> who use pine or many POP mailers such as Eudora). Things work correctly
> 99.98% of the time, but the times it doesn't work, I don't know where to
> look.

Why not re-write the recipient?  Something like

R$+@$+.cna.org	$1 @ cna.org	Convert user@mach.domain to user@domain

This should be placed somewhere early in the recieving rules.

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Erik Van Riper (EV34)                    Systems / Network Administrator
Midway Home Entertainment Inc.                     San Diego, California
(619) 658 9500 (x110)                    
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