Date: 21 Aug 2002 12:47:48 -0500 From: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail header substitution Message-ID: <86it24w1bv.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net>
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My problem is this: After upgrading to 4.6, the new sendmail
configuration keeps substituting `localhost' for the host name in
email headers. This is causing the two nodes on my private network to
reject each other's mail.
Since I have root on my headless firewall/print server aliased to my
user account on my workstation, I can't get the output of periodic
scripts as I normally did.
This shows up in the sending hosts mail log:
Aug 21 03:03:57 tater sendmail[10550]: g7L83q7f010548:
to=jtm@jamestown, ctladdr=<root@tater.21stcentury.net> (0/0),
delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=33954,
relay=jamestown.21stcentury.net. [192.168.1.1], dsn=5.6.0,
stat=Data format error
And I eventually get a message (after bouncing around some between
machines) that includes:
----BEGIN PART OF ERROR MESSAGE----
The original message was received at Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:00:14 -0500 (CDT)
from localhost [127.0.0.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
jtm@jamestown (reason: 553 5.5.4
<jtm@localhost.21stcentury.net>... Real domain name required for
sender address) (expanded from: <jtm@tater.21stcentury.net>)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to
jamestown.21stcentury.net.: >>> MAIL
From:<jtm@localhost.21stcentury.net> SIZE=885 <<< 553 5.5.4
<jtm@localhost.21stcentury.net>... Real domain name required for
sender address
----END PART OF ERROR MESSAGE----
Somewhere in the configuration files now, localhost.$m is being
substituted for $j in the headers and the recieving MTA is refusing to
accept the message because it thinks itself to be localhost (and it
is right!). I don't see why you would do this, but I would like to
turn it off. However, I still haven't found a way.
Any one know what happened and how to fix it?
Jim
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