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[keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Keith Warno)]

Hmmm... qmail busted?  Naaa, I hardly think qmail is at fault at all.

What is this strange "Sender:" field that we speak of?  Is it an MUA
problem?  It sounds like it may be.  This message is getting to you from M$
OE (unfortunately) via a qmail SMTP box.  Is there a "Sender:" field in the
headers?  Hmm I don't think so.

You may want to direct your gripes to qmail.org, or perhaps the qmail
mailing list.  Send a blank email to qmail-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for info.

Cheerz,
kw
/* Keith Warno
** Developer & Sys Admin
** http://www.HaggleWare.com/
*/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monte Milanuk" <milanuk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bill Moseley" <moseley@xxxxxxxx>; <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: 30 May 2000, Tuesday 15:27
Subject: Re: [SLE] qmail busted?

I don't think it is just a qmail problem.  I have been
having issues w/ people griping (justifiably) at me because
of this 'Sender' field.  But I am not using qmail, or
sendmail, or anything (yet)  I have been using Netscape
Messenger, and that's it.  No MTA involved.  but I get
these darned Sender fields injected in my messages using my
local user name.  And for those who want to tell me to edit
'Preferences', 'Mail', 'Identity', I have.  Nowhere in
there does it contain 'monte'.  It has my email address.
Period.  So the problem is coming in somewhere else (in
Netscape, or whatever).  Sorry if I seem a little touchy on
this, but I got several off-list emails from people who
didn't read my earlier posts, then pointed out what I
already had done, and (this is what burns me) did it using
a bogus email address.  Grrr...  I am setting up my email &
news system this week and going back to mutt and slrn!  At
least there I have more control over my headers!  This
email _shouldn't_ have a weird sender field, as I am
sending it from Yahoo!'s web mailer.

As an aside, is there a good way (using procmail, or
whatever) to recycle my old emails from ~/nsmail/ into my
new mailbox for mutt?

Also, I believe I am not getting all the posts to this
group.  I see messages in GeoCrawler archives that I
haven't seen in the mail I received, and I get followups to
posts that I never saw either.  WTF?

Thank you for your time

Monte

--- Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I, like many, use fetchmail to deliver to my local MTA
> which is sendmail.
>
> It seems as if fetchmail will use the Sender: header as
> the sender envelope
> to deliver messages if available.  Unfortunately, it
> seems like qmail is
> creating this Sender: header from the local machine which
> may not be a
> resolvable name as far as DNS is concerned.  I have
> sendmail setup in the
> default way which rejects unresolvable sender envelopes.
>
> This Sender: header causes the message to bounce, but
> since the sender is
> not resolvable, the bounce fails and it gets delivered to
> postmaster
> locally, missing the body of the message.
>
> I'm seeing a lot of these bounces from various lists, but
> mostly from this
> list.  And as far as I can remember, all were sent via
> qmail.  So I'm
> assuming this Sender: header is set by qmail.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a setting in qmail that
> controls what the
> Sender: header is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Moseley
> mailto:moseley@xxxxxxxx
>
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