From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 8:18:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw1-b.osis.gov (fw1-b.osis.gov [204.178.104.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9963837BF53; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:18:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsdy@cospo.osis.gov) Received: from washington.cospo.osis.gov by fw1-b.osis.gov with SMTP id LAA03323 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0); Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:17:56 -0400 Received: (from jsdy@localhost) by washington.cospo.osis.gov (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.1-cospo) id LAA15081; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:17:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:17:47 -0400 From: Joseph S D Yao To: ganizani Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Randall Gellens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, qpopper@lists.pensive.org Subject: Re: What makes addresses unbalanced Message-Id: <20000719111747.E14866@washington.cospo.osis.gov> Mail-Followup-To: ganizani , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Randall Gellens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, qpopper@lists.pensive.org References: <438917971938066337367@lists.pensive.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <438917971938066337367@lists.pensive.org>; from ganizani@malawi.net on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:18:52AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:18:52AM +0200, ganizani wrote: > When I check to postmaster mail I am oftenly receiving this kind of mail. > What causes addresses to be unbalanced. What can I do to solve this. > This is the message I get. One cause is unbalanced mail clients running on MS Windows. ;-> Another cause that I've seen is a relatively old version of 'sendmail' running and receiving those huge "cc" lists that people seem to love to create these days. With insufficient buffer space to hold the whole virtual line, the older versions of 'sendmail' will just truncate them. This would result in extra '<'s. But not extra '>'s. Extra '>'s might be produced by MTA or MUA code that "knows better than you do", and alters the header lines - a Bad Thing To Do Indeed, but typical of MS MTAs. -- Joe Yao jsdy@cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of COSPO policies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message