Re: [SLUG] mail

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 18:08:11 EDT


On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:33:41AM -0700, Bob File wrote:

> Well I got booted off the list again, which probably means that my return
> address is incorrect.

Correct. I remember uns*bbing it for bounces.

> I fixed this by hand by adding an alias to sendmail.cf
> in SuSE 7.3 . In 8 there is configuration built into yast2 for this. I can
> remember nks.net refusing mail from me because my return address seemed to be
> forged. I get the same messges on this end now when I use fetchmail if a
> domain can't be found.

Don't let fetchmail pass incoming mail to sendmail. Use procmail
instead. I'm not sure how to make this happen, but there's a line you
can add in your sendmail.mc that might do it:

MAILER(procmail)dnl

Then regenerate your sendmail.cf

Paul



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