On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:44:58PM -0000,
John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I receive email for a domain via uucp, and send out mail via smtp to a
> commercial relay host, (why, is a rather complicated issue,) which is
> the default in smtproutes for non-local domain delivery.
>
> Incoming mail from the uucp provider has a "From " header of the form
> "From somedomain.com!user ...", and qmail changes this to "From
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...", (as it probably should.)
>
> Although delivery works, bounced messages bounce, (not surprisingly,
> since qmail favors the "From " header, as it probably should, for
> bounced addresses.)
>
> Is there a way to handle this, (sending bounced messages back though
> uucp would suffice.)
It should work. The bounce messages should come back to your host.
You need to just have an alias for somedomain!user that forwards
to the uucp mailer. You should already have something like that
if you are accepting inbound mail for this person.
