[LUNI] Sendmail question. . . .

[Mark E. Matula]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Martin Maney wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:23:15PM -0600, Mark E. Matula wrote:
> > If you're wondering why I care about this, among other things, it wonks
> > replies by trying to deliver them locally.  And it just bugs me.
>
> Since they are not local users, and have no hostname, what magic do you
> think is going to deliver them no matter what your MTA does?  Where should
> it send them?

It shouldn't send them.  It should (IMO) ignore them.  But it SHOULDN'T slap
a @charon.dnsalias.net on them and call it good.  Although, now it occurs to
me maybe it's the client that's doing the slapping.  I'll have to do a
little more testing.

The bottom line is that the problem is with the sending client or MTA for
not using a legit address in the first place, I guess (I've noticed it w/
Lookout, but there might be others).  So I guess maybe I was barking up the
wrong tree.  Next time I see one like that I'll check out what it looks like
pre-pine in the spool.

Thanks for helping clear my clouded thoughts on this matter.

-- 
Mark Matula

Real programmers don't write in BASIC.  Actually, no programmers write in
BASIC after reaching puberty.