[PLUG] sendmail question - sending null ORCPT

[wes]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, wes wrote:
>
> > I have encountered an apparent oddity in my Sendmail configuration.
> > Please, hold off on the "switch to postfix/etc" suggestions - that
> > is in the future plans, but for today I am stuck with Sendmail and I
> > need to fix this issue.
> >
> > When communicating with a remote MTA, trying to submit new mail, my
> > installation of Sendmail on openSUSE 10.3 is giving a bogus RCPT
> > command. Like so:
> >
> > RCPT To:<1 at 2.3> NOTIFY=FAILURE ORCPT=rfc822;
> >
> > when it should look like so:
> >
> > RCPT To:<1 at 2.3> NOTIFY=FAILURE ORCPT=rfc822;<1 at 2.3>
> >
> > I'm not entirely certain whether the <>s are supposed to be present
> > in the ORCPT command, but in any case, there's nothing there.
> >
> > Any idea where I can start to look for why it's blank?
>
> There wouldn't happen to be a Cisco firewall (like a PIX) in the
> router chain, would there?
>
> --
> Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
>

I suppose it's possible, but I'm inspecting packets locally on the machine
that is sending these out. So I don't see how a firewall could be
interfering...

-wes