Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Bowie Bailey writes:
> 
> > I just received an email through another email list.  This email was
> > obviously from a real list member based on the headers and content.
> > The strange thing is that the From address shows as the local user
> > who owns the virtual maildirs on my server.
> > 
> > I also noticed that SpamAssassin marked this message with a rule
> > stating that there were no lowercase letters in the From address. 
> > But when I look at it, there are only lowercase letters.  It seems
> > like Courier rewrote the From address for some reason -- possibly
> > when Maildrop resubmitted the message for delivery to our internal
> > mailserver.  Would this happen for an empty From address?  Any
> > other reason? 
> > 
> > I have this set in my maildroprc for mail delivery (along with a
> > patched deliver.C to enable the -f option):
> > 
> >     import SENDER
> >     SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail -f \"$SENDER\""
> > 
> > Is there any case where SENDER would default to the local user for
> > an external email?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> The sendmail man page lists all the special environment variables that
> control address rewriting.

I read up on all of that.  I'm not setting any of those variables.

I guess I'll just put it down to gremlins since it only happened once.
If it starts happening again, I'll continue to investigate.

-- 
Bowie


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