Hi all,
up until recently, I've been doing my mailing off-line by letting elm put my
mail in /var/spool/mqueue until I make connection with my ISP, at which time
I run sendmail using -q -v. The sysamins recently upgraded to the newest
sendmail version which is stricter about who it accepts mail from (an anti
spam measure). If the machine sending the mail is not found by the DNS, the
mail is bounced back. Since my box is a standalone system at home, it isn't
recognized and all af my outgoing mail has been bounced back with a 'Data
format error' message. Is there any way to get elm or sendmail on my end to
write the headers in such a way that they are known to the mail server?
Currently I have the SmartHost option set to the mail server where my mail
is recieved. The sysadmins advised me to set the From: line in the
elmheaders file to my own mail address, which didn't work. They also told me
to get rid of the masquerade option (which was set to the mail server name
when this all started). This also had no effect. The following is what the
header in the mailqueue looks like locally:
V2
T896422628
K0
N0
P30315
I3/66/9936
Mhost map: lookup (tu-clausthal.de): deferred
Fb
$_harold@localhost
Sharold
RPFD:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
H?P?Return-Path: <harold>
HReceived: (from harold@localhost)
by tigger.chris.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00241
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:17:08
+02
00
H?x?Full-Name: Harold Weiss-Wallrath
H?M?Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HSubject: test
HTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HDate: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:17:07 +0200 (MET DST)
HReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HFrom: Harold Weiss-Wallrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HContent-Type: text
HContent-Length: 48
I think (I'm no expert here) that the problem resides in the HRecieved:
entry. The machine tigger.chris.org (I had to give it a name at install
time, so I pulled something out of my hat) is my home box and is only
connected occasionally by a dynamic IP address. I have to work this way to
keep the otherwise high telephone costs as low as possible due to being on a
typical students budget.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Harold
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