On Sat, 4 May 2002, F. G. Marx wrote:

>
>
> Hi:
>     I'd like to report initial success installing my first mail-server,
> XMail for a small website.  Lots of fun working with XMail.  Thank
> you for your work on it.
>
>     I have an initial problem, and an overview question.
>
>     The problem:
>
>       I cannot get a Return-Path: of other than <> in normal mails.
>       Error messages, e.g., for unable-to-deliver's, sent by xmail
>       to postmaster, however, are correct.  All normal mails all look
>       like this:
>
>           Return-Path: <>
>           Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>           Received: from starf.dyndns.org [162.83.198.79]
>                   by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.11)
>                   for root@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 04 May 2002 10:40:11 -0400 
>(EDT)
>           Received: from /spool/local
>                   by starf.dyndns.org with [XMail 1.7 (Linux/Ix86) LMAIL Server]
>                   for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from <>;
>                   Sat, 04 May 2002 10:39:48 -0400
>           Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:39:46 -0400
>           From: "Frank G. Marx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>           To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>           Subject: Sat May  4 10:39:40 EDT 2002
>           Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>           Mime-Version: 1.0
>           Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>           Content-Disposition: inline
>           User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
>           Status: RO
>           Content-Length: 85
>           Lines: 3
>
>       So, no matter where I send from (and I have xmail setup on two
>       servers, one with a permanent, and the other with a dynamic, ip
>       address), I'm always getting ``Return-Path: <>''

you're using an empty "MAIL FROM:<>" or, if you're using XMail's sendmail,
you're not specifying the -fFROM_ADDRESS option.



>
>     The overview question:
>
>       I have an account on dyndns.org for my dynamic-ip setup.  What
>       exactly is going on with the server.tab configuration variable
>       [DynDnsSetup]?  Dynamic MX records ... ?

if, its purpose is to setup dns entries for your domain correctly.



- Davide


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