God i hope not! and there are probably millions of very good reasons for
that! run your procmail on a mailserver with a legit domain! all good
ISP's reject relaying from bogus domains, and you should too!
Jamie
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Darrin Lajoie wrote:
> I want procmail to forward a copy of an e-mail that comes from a specific e-mail
>address. Something like this
>
> 0: c
> * ^From:*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I've tried it, but I get an error e-mail back that looks like this:
>
> The original message was received at Thu, 25 May 2000 07:53:06 -0700
> from root@localhost
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mailserver.isp.com.:
> >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1605
> <<< 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist
> 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data format error
>
>
> I'm guessing that because my private mail server is trying to forward the piece of
>mail and using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the sender, my ISP is bouncing it
>because private.net is a made up name and doesn't really exist.
>
> Is there a way to change the name of root (the sender), with a config setting or a
>procmail rule or a sendmail command line or by running procmail as another user other
>than su. If anyone has a suggestion, please toss me a clue.
>
> Thanks
>
