Sendmail

Sendmail's loop detection v. RFC2821 [debian]
Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi(a)onet.eu> wrote: RFC2821 recommends using 100 Received: headers as indicator of email loop. AFAIR Sendmail uses 25 as default MaxHopCount value. I do think that sendmail *SHOULD* use additional loop detection methods if 100 is going to be used as default MaxHopCount value. ... 29 Jul 2008 15:45

SOLVED regarding a spot of trouble sending mail
>> Quite the opposite. But the password portion keeps failing. Grant seems pretty certain it is SASL which is causing the troubles, so I look forward to figuring out or learning how to get this set up and working! Thanks to Grant for pointing me in the right direction! Sendmail was already setup fo... 24 Jul 2008 15:59

how to avoid sending DSN-failure messages. [LUSER_RELAY with modified user map]
qMax <qwiglydee(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 21 июл, 19:39, Andrzej Adam Filip <a...(a)onet.eu> wrote: qMax <qwigly...(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm stuck with problem with bouncing mails with DSN failures. When using local mailer w/out Flag=w or LUSER_RELAY, or MAIL_HUB (smtp mailer in these misses F=w as... 31 Jul 2008 14:26

greet pause only for not authenticated IPs
Hi, I´m using the GreetPause feature and a map file with IPs which are allowed to relay because of POP3 authentification. For the IPs in the ip allow map the greet pause should not be used but how to modify the sendmail.cf (sendmail 8.13.6) for this? Best Regards Frank ... 14 Aug 2008 11:23

Sendmail's loop detection v. RFC2821
RFC2821 recommends using 100 Received: headers as indicator of email loop. AFAIR Sendmail uses 25 as default MaxHopCount value. I do think that sendmail *SHOULD* use additional loop detection methods if 100 is going to be used as default MaxHopCount value. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt <quote> 6.2 Loo... 25 Jul 2008 05:18

Many A records for hostname
In two days I have found two cases of something I never saw before. Sendmail recorded two hosts as not having matching PTR and A records, or that is, it recorded the host only as [n.n.n.n] without a name. In both cases there _was_ an A record back to the IP address, but the A also pointed to many, many other IP ad... 30 Jul 2008 01:00

Setting up sendmail on Solaris 10
Hello All I am trying to setup sendmail 8.13 on our Solaris 10 environment. What we want is to have all the local hosts in our environment forward their mail to a central mail server. Then have the central mail server relay it to the proper email address. I do have sendmail up and have tested it. We can send ema... 24 Jul 2008 15:59

Sendmail and Reverse Lookups
Hi Everyone, I'm new to the group and not a sendmail user but am trying to troubleshoot an issue for a sendmail user. hmm... My company uses an outside vendor to send Marketing emails to our members. One of our members using Sendmail to receive the emails is stating that Sendmail is blocking the emails becau... 22 Jul 2008 14:44

plugins as maps (was: Feature request: Internal map function - to "reverse" an IP.)
"D. Stussy" <spam(a)bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote: Suggestion: At some point in the future when IPv6 catches on, there may be a need to have an IPv6 dnsbl. However, converting an IPv6 address literal into its reverse zone format is not trivial like it is for IPv4. It can be done with some simple resolver calls ... 22 Jul 2008 18:52

Feature request: Internal map function - to "reverse" an IP.
Suggestion: At some point in the future when IPv6 catches on, there may be a need to have an IPv6 dnsbl. However, converting an IPv6 address literal into its reverse zone format is not trivial like it is for IPv4. It can be done with some simple resolver calls but I don't see an easy solution using the ruleset s... 22 Jul 2008 00:23