Roy Britten wrote:
Are you sure you're running sendmail? Most seem to be running exim these days. You need some kind of config file - is there anything in /etc/mail? You really need to start at semdmail.mc and move on.So, changing from Thunderbird to Mutt has resulted in my posts to this list being blocked. Zane suggests, and I'm inclined to concur, that the list server is blocking my mail because my Return-Path header differs from the From header, which is the subscribed address. (Thunderbird, which I'm using for this email, uses an SMTP server; Mutt uses, presumably, sendmail locally).
My box has no sendmail.cf file.
What I'd like to do is rewrite the Return-Path header. Its current value (when composing within Mutt) complies with the RFC and is an address that is only reachable from within our WAN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Are there good reasons why this would not be a good idea? How have others
overcome this problem? Pointers to references? man sendmail is not especially
helpful, and O'Reilly's "sendmail" is verbose but challenging.
Although a wonderful book, it is also a great cure for insomnia (:
Cheers,
Roy.
This should get you started ( change greengecko.co.nz to your own domain. As you can see, this is for debian
The three lines that start with dnl ( destructive new line ) are commented out - you may or may not need them.
Save this as /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, and run 'make' in that directory.
Cheers,
Steve
include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl VERSIONID(`$Id: sendmail.mc, v 8.12.11-5 2004-04-22 15:43:34 cowboy Exp $') OSTYPE(`debian')dnl DOMAIN(`debian-mta')dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl FEATURE(`local_no_masquerade')dnl LOCAL_CONFIG Cwgreengecko.co.nz FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl FEATURE(`smrsh')dnl dnl FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable')dnl dnl VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/virthosts')dnl
include(`/etc/mail/dialup.m4')dnl include(`/etc/mail/provider.m4')dnl include(`/etc/mail/tls/starttls.m4')dnl
MAILER_DEFINITIONS
MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl
