[TriLUG] sendmail header question

[Joseph Tate]

What does hostname give you?  I.e. run hostname from the commandline.



Turnpike Man wrote:

>Here are my headers as I was testing (and successfully tested) sending emails
>to an AOL user this morning:
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>>----------------------- Headers --------------------------------
>>Return-Path: <myemail at mydomain.com>
>>Received: from  rly-xm03.mx.aol.com (rly-xm03.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.104]) 
>>by air-xm04.mail.aol.com (v92.17) with ESMTP id MAILINXM41-81f43e846c79267; 
>>Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:38:33 -0500
>>Received: from  localhost.localdomain (rdu25-28-017.nc.rr.com 
>>[24.25.28.17]) by rly-xm03.mx.aol.com (v92.16) with ESMTP id 
>>MAILRELAYINXM35-5ff3e846c3b228; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:37:31 -0500
>>Received: from mydomain.com (bertha [127.0.0.1])
>>    by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h2SFO6q01763
>>    for <NsconductSPLATcom>; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:24:06 -0500
>>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:24:05 -0000
>>To: <NsconductSPLATcom>
>>Subject: from D M on NCrail
>>From: "D M" <myemail at mydomain.com>
>>X-Mailer: TWIG 2.7.7
>>Message-ID: <twig.1048865045.28714 at mydomain.com>
>>Reply-To: myemail at mydomain.com
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>sorry I had to genericize the header... question should still be logical...
>
>What I don't understand is why the Received: from is localhost.localdomain and
>bertha is 127.0.0.1 and the by localhost.localdomain are in these headers! 
>What and or where should I be looking to fix this problem!  If I was to ditch
>Exchange for sendmail, I'd have the same issue at corporate b/c I obviously
>haven't learned enough! Thanks!
>
>David M.
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