On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses.
>
> For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's
> retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based
> addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get
> out of my ISP's domain.
>
> However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the
> follow header:
>
> mail failed, returning to sender
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: jesse
>
>
> |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
> [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender
> domain
> must exist |------------------------- Message text follows:
> ------------------------| Received: by debian
> via sendmail from stdin
> id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.102)
> for <unknown>; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:41:07 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [To: address snipped]
> Subject: Re: visiting CA
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:35:01 -0800
> X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17]
> Content-Type: text/plain
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-KMail-Mark:
>
> (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake
> of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm
> 'jesse'
> on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this
> message ok, so what's up?
>
> --
> 'til next we type...
> HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
It looks like the recipient's mail server insists on legal sender's
address on email envelope. For example, your envelope
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 1 23:47:45 1999
is rejected because '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is not legal internet address.
I had similar problem, some time ago. My solution was to re-generate
/etc/sendmail.cf from /usr/src/sendmail/cf/cf/linux.smtp.mc:
include(`../m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`linux for smtp-only setup')dnl
OSTYPE(linux)
FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(better.net)dnl <-- my ISP
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl <-- my addition
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
It turned out the following section controls how sendmail writes
an envelope:
###################################################################
### Ruleset 94 -- convert envelope names to masqueraded form ###
###################################################################
S94
R$+ $@ $>93 $1
#R$* < @ *LOCAL* > $* $: $1 < @ $j . > $2
--William.
