[LUNI] sendmail configuration question

Casey Cichon casey at wizkid.homelinux.net
Wed Nov 14 12:45:22 CST 2007



Mike Scott wrote:
>> You can also try setting MAILTO="your at email.address" in the crontab, 
>> perhaps the spam check doesn't like that To: is root at random.host vs your 
>> actual email address?
> 
> I'm not sure that would help as sending a test email from the command
> prompt:
> 
> echo test|mail mscott at wowway.com
> 
> Also fails.  I think is may be the from address doesn't jive with the IP
> address in reverse DNS lookups.

You have to put your authentication into the sendmail.cf stuff.

I used http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Sendmail-Address-Rewrite.html, i think (it
was a long time ago).  To make all my casey at wizkid.homelinux.net stuff
think it came from Comcast (now i do it for AT&T).

Casey

> I know DynDNS offers a pay service MX relay to resolve these issues, but
> I thought that if I could make the sender's domain match my ISPs then it
> would satisfy it.
> 
> - Mike Scott
> 



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