Hi there,
I've been experiencing the following strange situation with qmail
when I try to send a message from localhost (with relaying from
localhost allowed) with a user-filled-in sender address. That is, when
I do the following on the mailserver host:
mailserver(ttyp2:138:0):/var/qmail/control# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mailserver.somewhere.com ESMTP
MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- this domain is NOT in the rcpthosts
250 ok
RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
DATA
354 go ahead
test
.
250 ok 961499283 qp 84857
quit
221 mailserver.somewhere.com
Connection closed by foreign host.
Then on the receiving host I listen for the mail I just made up:
anothermailserver(ttyp0:106:0):~# nc -l -p 25
220
HELO mailserver.somewhere.com
250
MAIL FROM:<com>
250
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250
DATA
250
Received: (qmail 84417 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2000 10:51:25 -0000
Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1)
by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jun 2000 10:51:25 -0000
test
.
250
QUIT
The part that I'm really confused on is HOW did qmail make up the
MAIL FROM: part, and why is it WRONG? Where should I look if I want to
fix this problem?
If the from address IS in the rcpthosts file, everything works just fine.
The above problem causes most receiving mail servers to bounce the message
complaining about an invalid sender address.
Thanks in advance,
Greetings
Sebastiaan van Erk
