Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
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 real e-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 my choice. I meant e-mail account, to have e-mail bounce to the address in the From: field which is usually someaddress@domain.com, a valid external e-mail address (the mail server accepting e-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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
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  3. Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
  4. Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (John Peacock 2001)
  5. Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
  6. Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (John Peacock 2001)
  7. Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
Hi John,When you say real user do you mean real user in the /etc/passwd file or do you mean real e-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 my choice. I meant e-mail account, to have e-mail bounce to the address in the From: field which is usually someaddress@domain.com, a valid external e-mail address (the mail server accepting e-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/ Clement Ross

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