Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:48:37 -0500 From: John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: don@whtech.com (Don O'Neil), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird sendmail/pop problem Message-ID: <199808312348.SAA08131@milo.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:27:20 -0000." <199808312327.QAA11677@usr01.primenet.com>
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Hello all..
How about removing the comment from the following in the sendmail.cf file??
#O MeToo
--John Prince
Terry Lambert writes:
> > Well, To correct my mis-statement, I do realize that SMTP is how the mail i
s
> > delivered, I was intending to point out that I was using a "standard" POP3
> > type client for recieving, not something like IMAP.... Anyway... I've
> > checked the SMTP (sendmail) logs and the delivery is only made to one of th
e
> > two recipents, no matter what order the names are in the .forward file, my
> > name is allways skipped.... Now, my name is of course the one sending the
> > message... is there something in sendmail that knows I was the originator
> > and doesn't bother to send the message back to me? Now if I send a message
> > using mail or elm, or pine, or sendmail directly from the box (not using th
e
> > PC client) then both recipients get the message (I did this a root).
>
> Sendmail does not know you are the originator.
>
> The questions that would have been answered for me by the information
> I requested are:
>
> 1) What are the "MAIL FROM:" and "RCPT TO:" linces actually
> being sent to sendmail?
>
> 2) Are any of the addresses aliases for each other? If so,
> sendmail will realize this, and send only a single copy
> of the message to any one local maildrop.
>
> 3) Are you attempting to use "popclient" or "fetchmail" in
> "multidrop mode"?
>
> A) Fetchmail is broken, in that it searches for
> "any header" instead of "best header".
>
> B) You should use "X-Envelope-To". If you are
> using "qmail", you should use "Delivered-To"
> and "-qvirtual" to remove the domain prefix
> that qmail stupidly prepends to the "Delivered-To"
> name.
>
> C) If you can not use (A) or (B), then you should
> remove the "m" flag in the mailer doing delivery.
> This will result in a "Recieved ... by ... for ..."
> line, where "by ..." is by your MX, and "for ..."
> is for the addressee
>
> 4) If you are using the same mail client to donload from
> one or mor addresses, make sure you have not told it to
> get rid of mail you have "already seen". This is done
> by "Message-ID" in many instances, and will result in
> your mail client "hiding" the "duplicate" message.
>
> Of course, there is a hell of a lot more detail than this, and a
> hell of a lot more branch paths possible, depending on the other
> questions I didn't tell you that the data would answer, and varying
> by the mail clients, etc., that you are using.
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
>
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