From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 31 16:50:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03714 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com (garbo.lodgenet.com [204.124.122.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA03709 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnp@lodgenet.com) Received: from milo.lodgenet.com (milo.lodgenet.com [10.0.122.42]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA04058; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:41:58 -0500 Received: from milo.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by milo.lodgenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA08131; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:48:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808312348.SAA08131@milo.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Terry Lambert cc: don@whtech.com (Don O'Neil), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird sendmail/pop problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:27:20 -0000." <199808312327.QAA11677@usr01.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:48:37 -0500 From: John Prince Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message