masquerading envelope not working in mutt

Jack Bowling jbinpg at shaw.ca
Fri Jan 23 17:18:43 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:45:32AM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:14:03AM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Jack Bowling um 09:19:
> > > Emails to this list have been bouncing back from the redhat mail server since
> > > yesterday using mutt. I believe it is because RH has started doing a DNS lookup
> > > on the hostnames and my envelope sender is set for my local hostname.
> > > 
> > > I first tried to use the "set envelope_from" option in mutt to no avail. I then
> > > went through the whole complicated rigamarole of setting up envelope
> > > masquerading in sendmail using genericstable. Again to no avail.
> > > 
> > > So I am stuck here wondering what I could possibly be doing wrong. Apparently I
> > > am unable to modify the envelope sender on my FC1 box. Perhaps somebody has run
> > > into this before?
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Jack Bowling
> > 
> > If you look at those mail header lines, showing the starting points of
> > your mail:
> > 
> > Received:  from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net
> > [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id
> > i0N8Sel19075   for <fedora-list at redhat.com>; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 03:28:41
> > -0500
> > Received:  from pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca
> > [10.0.141.109]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18
> > (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HRX00LI2OHAKR at l-daemon> for
> > fedora-list at redhat.com; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:19:58 -0700 (MST)
> > Received:  from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml10so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca
> > [10.0.121.80]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18
> > (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HRX0042GOHAZ1 at l-daemon> for
> > fedora-list at redhat.com; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:19:58 -0700 (MST)
> > Received:  from 192.168.0.2 ([24.70.73.190]) by l-daemon (iPlanet
> > Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with SMTP id
> > <0HRX0074ZOHACX at l-daemon> for fedora-list at redhat.com; Fri, 23 Jan 2004
> > 01:19:58 -0700 (MST)
> > 
> > You easily see that (pn2ml10so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.80]) looks
> > strange, as 10.0.0.0/16 is no routeable net. Same with
> > pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.109]).
> > Additional I do not see any Sendmail host involved at your side but just
> > a Sun iPlanet server.
> 
> Actually, in the above, the first server it hits is the external mailserver
> at 24.71.223.10. I would assume anything in the 10.0.x.x block is an internal
> box handling the mail load. And yes, you won't see any local host involved
> from my side since I have sendmail set for SMART RELAY through my ISP.
> 
> However, the reason that you got that mail in the first place is that I used 
> another mailer instead of mutt. Note the line: 
> 
> > Received:  from 192.168.0.2 ([24.70.73.190]) by l-daemon (iPlanet...

[snip]


No bounce from mutt this time. Maybe I finally found the right incantations
with sendmail? Anyway, will monitor.


-- 
Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca





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