Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails
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numero = 39417
interpreted = N
texte = Hi John,When you say real user do you mean real user in the /etc/passwd file or do you mean reale-mail adress? The e-mails have valid e-mail adresses in the From: field.I think I was not clear when I said that I wanted the e-mails to bounce to an account of mychoice. I meant e-mail account, to have e-mail bounce to the address in the From: field whichis usually someaddress@domain.com, a valid external e-mail address (the mail server acceptinge-mails for domain.com is not local).Clem.John Peacock wrote:> Clement Ross wrote:> >> > WebCat 3.08 on Linux RH6.2> >> > Here is a problem I have with sendmail, both the context and the program. The bounced> > e-mails originally sent from WebCat (as user nobody) end up in the root mailbox.> >> > How can I have the e-mails bounce to an account of my choice? The most useful would be to> > have the bounced e-mails returned to the webmaster of the site where they come from.> >> > I tried to RTFM (sendmail 2nd edition, O'Reilly) but I can't make sense of the> > configuration syntax.> >> > Surely someone else has the same problem. How do you manage?> >>> Make sure that the From: address in the sendmail context is a real user.> You can create an alias if you want, but the reason you are getting the> e-mails for root is that sendmail associates PostMaster to root (this is> a really dumb thing to do, but that is a topic for another list).>> John>> p.s. if you were running under NT (or MacO/S, I think) you would not> be able to get away with using a non-existant user in the From: in> the first place...>> --> John Peacock> Director of Information Research and Technology> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group> 4720 Boston Way> Lanham, MD 20706> 301-459-3366 x.5010> fax 301-429-5747-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Hi John,When you say real user do you mean real user in the /etc/passwd file or do you mean reale-mail adress? The e-mails have valid e-mail adresses in the From: field.I think I was not clear when I said that I wanted the e-mails to bounce to an account of mychoice. I meant e-mail account, to have e-mail bounce to the address in the From: field whichis usually someaddress@domain.com, a valid external e-mail address (the mail server acceptinge-mails for domain.com is not local).Clem.John Peacock wrote:> Clement Ross wrote:> >> > WebCat 3.08 on Linux RH6.2> >> > Here is a problem I have with sendmail, both the context and the program. The bounced> > e-mails originally sent from WebCat (as user nobody) end up in the root mailbox.> >> > How can I have the e-mails bounce to an account of my choice? The most useful would be to> > have the bounced e-mails returned to the webmaster of the site where they come from.> >> > I tried to RTFM (sendmail 2nd edition, O'Reilly) but I can't make sense of the> > configuration syntax.> >> > Surely someone else has the same problem. How do you manage?> >>> Make sure that the From: address in the sendmail context is a real user.> You can create an alias if you want, but the reason you are getting the> e-mails for root is that sendmail associates PostMaster to root (this is> a really dumb thing to do, but that is a topic for another list).>> John>> p.s. if you were running under NT (or MacO/S, I think) you would not> be able to get away with using a non-existant user in the From: in> the first place...>> --> John Peacock> Director of Information Research and Technology> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group> 4720 Boston Way> Lanham, MD 20706> 301-459-3366 x.5010> fax 301-429-5747-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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