Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC No I don't have a registered name for my box, but my box's name GC doesn't appear anywhere, I have visible_name set to the name of my GC ISP. It is just the local user name that gets sent out (ie, my GC user name on my local box) and appended to my

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 07:32:52PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP envelope (it is not passed on final delivery). GC I am not sure about this, I can see the envelope From header on GC messages

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC Is is possible that the MAIL FROM: command in the SMTP protocol is GC responsible, and if so, is there any way to circumvent ? No, I never heared of a MTA changing the from or sender headers or such. It may do checks on the headers though (I

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-31 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 07:32:52PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC I think you are right, though, that it is the list software and GC not the MTA that is silently discarding my mail. Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-29 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 07:32:52PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC I think you are right, though, that it is the list software and GC not the MTA that is silently discarding my mail. Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-28 Thread G. Crimp
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 02:20:48PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC The From: header is okay, but the envelope From header gets GC written as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The my.isp.com is getting through GC because I could tell smail that my visible_name

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC I think you are right, though, that it is the list software and GC not the MTA that is silently discarding my mail. Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP envelope (it is not passed on final delivery). GC My From: field is not a

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC The From: header is okay, but the envelope From header gets GC written as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The my.isp.com is getting through GC because I could tell smail that my visible_name was the domain of GC my ISP and not the local machine name. GC Some

MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-26 Thread G. Crimp
What do people on this list do when there local name is not the same as there login at their ISP ? My mail doesn't make it to some mailing lists because of the SMTP ident thingy. I'm talking about dial up users like myself, not those who are running servers and have their own domains,

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
With sendmail, I use the MASQUERADE_AS line in sendmail.mc which works for me on restricted lists. Bob On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote: What do people on this list do when there local name is not the same as there login at their ISP ? My mail doesn't make it to some mailing lists