Does anybody else get delivery failure message
David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
dave at davenjudy.org
Wed Jan 18 14:10:17 UTC 2006
paul at city-fan.org wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:44 -0700, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
>wrote:
>
>
>>> The beauty of running your own e-mail server:
>>>
>>> [root at fraud mail]# head -40 access
>>> # Check the /usr/doc/sendmail-8.11.0/README.cf file for a description
>>> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
>>> # The /usr/doc/sendmail-8.11.0/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
>>> # package.
>>> #
>>> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
>>> localhost.localdomain RELAY
>>> localhost RELAY
>>> 127.0.0.1 RELAY
>>> 192.168.0.0/16 RELAY
>>> ...
>>> # Idiots
>>> MAILER-DAEMON at ceres.concept.net.nz ERROR:"550 Tell this idiot
>>> (jrhw) to empty his mailbox"
>>
>>
>
>Is that rule actually catching anything for you? The "bounce" I got had
>an envelope sender address of dbmail at ceres.concept.net.nz rather than
>MAILER-DAEMON at ceres.concept.net.nz (or <>) and hence wouldn't be caught
>by that rule.
>
>I have:
>
>From:dbmail at ceres.concept.net.nz ERROR:5.7.1:550 Bounces go to
>the envelope sender address, not the header sender address
>
>And that's certainly working according to /var/log/maillog
>
>Paul.
>
>
>
Sometimes you don't get the rule right until the second time ;-).
I'll bounce stuff from ceres.concept.net.nz until I stop seeing error
messages on my end.
Cheers,
Dave
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