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 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
