I think the easier way to do this is to edit /etc/sendmail.cf and remove authwarnings from the line that says O PrivacyOptions= authwarnings etc and restart sendmail On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Boris Lorenz wrote:

Hi,

this authentication error is due to the SuSE mc-File (linux.mc in /etc/mail) setup and the privacy flags. These flags help admins to make their sendmail installations a little bit safer.

Look for a line like

define (`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`authwarnings,needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noetrn,noverb')dnl

in your linux.mc file in /etc/mail and change it to:

"define (`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`needmailhelo,novrfy,noexpn,noetrn,noverb')dnl"

With the authwarnings-entry, sendmail warns about people that use sendmail -bs to change their local address to something useful/official.

After the change use m4 to create a new sendmail.cf:

m4 linux.mc >sendmail.cf

and copy this new sendmail.cf to /etc. Now restart sendmail and try again, the authwarnings should be gone. Alternatively, change the appropriate lines in linux.mc and run /sbin/SuSEconfig (which installs a new sendmail.cf in case linux.mc has changed).

Boris ---

On 23-Nov-00 ralf.vroomen@itplus.nl wrote:

...

Hi!

A little weird problem here. I have a SuSE 7.0 box (dell.broeders.yi.org) running sendmail set up to receve incoming email for @broeders.yi.org and dump them in the corresponding local users mail boxes. So now users can pop or imap to it to get there mail.

All working well, but (there's the but ;) , there is a litte error in each message receved:

## Here it begins ## Return-Path: Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by broeders.yi.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eANA09r07802 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:00:09 +0100

## Here is the error I don't understand ## X-Authentication-Warning: dell.broeders.yi.org: Host [127.0.0.1] claimed to be localhost

## The rest ## Received: from pop.dds.nl by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.4.0) for ervee@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:00:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from shaman.dds.nl (shaman.dds.nl [194.109.21.25]) by feline.dds.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAN98Di13751; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:08:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com (cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109]) by shaman.dds.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA27408; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:12:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from peach (209.119.0.4) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <17.001F0C68@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 4:05:49 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.ROXIO.COM by LISTSERV.ROXIO.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 190411 for ROXIOWIN@LISTSERV.ROXIO.COM; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 04:04:37 -0500 Approved-By: deirdre_straughan@ROXIO.COM Received: from 208.236.45.160 by PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (SMTPL release 1.0d) with TCP; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 04:00:29 -0500 Received: from aimexc02.corp.adaptec.com ([162.62.62.40]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA19614 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from roxio.com (ws108-66.corp.adaptec.com [162.62.108.66]) by aimexc02.corp.adaptec.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id WAY1150C; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:00:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3A1CDCB7.DEB7DFA1@roxio.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:00:39 -0800 Reply-To: "Deirdre' Straughan" Sender: Roxio for Windows From: "Deirdre' Straughan" Subject: [ROXIOWIN] The VideoCD Story: Part 1 To: ROXIOWIN@LISTSERV.ROXIO.COM X-UIDL: 633a48b5b1c8fc6d834b4e7c7a7038f7 ## End ##

So: "X-Authentication-Warning: dell.broeders.yi.org: Host [127.0.0.1] claimed to be localhost" is the. Has this something to do with it: "X-UIDL: 633a48b5b1c8fc6d834b4e7c7a7038f7" ???

Tips are welcome :)

ThanX, Ralf Vroomen I.T.Plus bv Holland

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