Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails

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2001

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texte = John Peacock wrote:> Clement Ross wrote:> > 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).> >>> Yes, I understand how Sendmail works.I, again, was not clear. I didn't want to tell you how Sendmail works, just wanted to convey thatwhen I was talking about account, I meant external e-mail addess.> Bounces for bad To: addresses go to postmaster@yourdomain.comThe header actually says To: nobody@mydomain.tld> and should also go to the From: address.It does not. And that's what I want it to do. I actually don't mind that the bounces go toposmaster/root. I just want them to go to the From: address too.> You can use the sendmail alias table to send postmaster mail to some other> account.I'll look into that.> However, this brings up another point: the From: address should be a> LOCAL address, not an EXTERNAL address. If you have munged Sendmail> to accept relay's for external addresses, you have disabled one of the> primary anti-Spam features and are running an open relay. You may> have added the external addresses to the list of acceptable relay> addresses, in which case I apologize.There is no list of external addresses nor relays. Sendmail seems to accept external addressesonly if sent from localhost. A telnet session from another machine to port 25 with RCPTTO:user@hotmail.com gives me a Relaying denied response. So I guess I munged it at some point orit installed that way. I hate open relays probably as much as you do.> The best way to set this up is to have local accounts forward to each> external user who is responsible for a domain, vis>> extdomain@localdomain.TLD => user@extdomain.TLD>> using either the alias table or forwarding to eventually deliver the> message.>Since the only relevent local account here is nobody, my guess is that this won't help me sendthe bounces to the From: address?Thanks,Clem.-------------------------------------------------------------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:

Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (John Peacock 2001)
Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (John Peacock 2001)
Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)
Re: Sendmail: bounced e-mails (John Peacock 2001)
Sendmail: bounced e-mails (Clement Ross 2001)

John Peacock wrote:> Clement Ross wrote:> > 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).> >>> Yes, I understand how Sendmail works.I, again, was not clear. I didn't want to tell you how Sendmail works, just wanted to convey thatwhen I was talking about account, I meant external e-mail addess.> Bounces for bad To: addresses go to postmaster@yourdomain.comThe header actually says To: nobody@mydomain.tld> and should also go to the From: address.It does not. And that's what I want it to do. I actually don't mind that the bounces go toposmaster/root. I just want them to go to the From: address too.> You can use the sendmail alias table to send postmaster mail to some other> account.I'll look into that.> However, this brings up another point: the From: address should be a> LOCAL address, not an EXTERNAL address. If you have munged Sendmail> to accept relay's for external addresses, you have disabled one of the> primary anti-Spam features and are running an open relay. You may> have added the external addresses to the list of acceptable relay> addresses, in which case I apologize.There is no list of external addresses nor relays. Sendmail seems to accept external addressesonly if sent from localhost. A telnet session from another machine to port 25 with RCPTTO:user@hotmail.com gives me a Relaying denied response. So I guess I munged it at some point orit installed that way. I hate open relays probably as much as you do.> The best way to set this up is to have local accounts forward to each> external user who is responsible for a domain, vis>> extdomain@localdomain.TLD => user@extdomain.TLD>> using either the alias table or forwarding to eventually deliver the> message.>Since the only relevent local account here is nobody, my guess is that this won't help me sendthe bounces to the From: address?Thanks,Clem.-------------------------------------------------------------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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