Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails
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numero = 39416
interpreted = N
texte = 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).Johnp.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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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).Johnp.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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