Sendmail

odd issue -- sendmail will not write/cat email to users mailfile
Scott Grayban wrote: I am running into a really weird issue where my local accounts wont get any mail. I have set the LogLevel to 30 to see if I could figure out why but nothing is there. It's as if the emails are getting sent to /dev/null The email is accepted and sendmail does say sent but when I lo... 3 Apr 2008 00:10

Access.db Seems to Be Ignored
Hi folks: I am using sendmail Version 8.13.1 on CentOS 4, and I am trying to use wildcards in my access.db to block all mail not coming from postini, my spam firewall service. I basically can't get it to work at all! Like, nothing happens, and spam still gets through. Here is my access file: # by default we... 3 Apr 2008 21:59

odd issue -- sendmail will not write/cat email to users mail file
I am running into a really weird issue where my local accounts wont get any mail. I have set the LogLevel to 30 to see if I could figure out why but nothing is there. It's as if the emails are getting sent to /dev/null The email is accepted and sendmail does say sent but when I look at the /var/spool/mail dire... 2 Apr 2008 19:08

Help access
Hi, I need to setup basic sendmail server to receive remote and local mail. Hostname: mailhost.mydomain.com IP: 172.16.0.4 Domain name: mydomain.com Network: 172.16.0.0 / 255.255.0.0 Do I need to create the /etc/mail/access file OR sendmail will allow local domain (mydomain.com) by default ? What ... 2 Apr 2008 23:03

delay_checks clarification
I have read the section of delay_checks of cf/README and searched the group, but still don't quite understand how it should work. I have delay_checks defined and this in access map: From:domain1.com REJECT To:domain2.com RELAY I thought mail from domain1.com to domain2.com sh... 2 Apr 2008 16:45

Sendmail 8.14.2 / SASL 2.1.22 Changes?
Hi, We've just moved to Sendmail 8.14.2 - using SASL 2.1.22 today - according to the release notes: "A code change in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.22 for sasl_decode64() requires the MTA to deal with some input (i.e., "=") itself. Problem noted by Eliot Lear." Since moving to these version... 2 Apr 2008 06:33

add to senders real name
Grant Taylor wrote: Use MIMEdefang to edit the From: header with in the message. I'd think a simple RegEx would do the trick "/\(From:.*\)\(<.*>.*\)/\1 [Safe] \2/" (or the likes) should do what you are needing. (Note: I've never used MIMEdefang and I'm not all that familiar with Perl RegExs, but tha... 2 Apr 2008 10:04

Customizing description of returned smtp code error to MTA
I want to custom error description of returned smtp error code to my sendmail MTA because when another sendmail returns specific stmp error 550, my sendmail shows "User unknown" while I'd like having "Mailbox full". ... 3 Apr 2008 02:57

Suggestion - regarding "Backscatter" (from another newsgroup)
D. Stussy wrote: I do not argue directly pro or con your idea, but basically you try to modify the mail transmission process into something like "cluster-mail- processing". The downstream server (sendmail would need to differ between downstream - aka internal - and external servers) is passing back how to handle... 2 Apr 2008 03:15

sendmail and firewall
Hi , I had my linux running sendmail as mailerver . I also had 2 network card installed on that machine , one with private ip connected to lan and other one with virutal ip connect to internet , which means linux acts as simple router . My question is that I want to install a firewall and let my mailse... 2 Apr 2008 03:15