[TriLUG] sendmail question

[Jon Carnes]

I just tested sending out a email from my junk mail address (at
hotmail.com) to my trilug address.  Worked fine using RoadRunner's 
smtp-server.nc.rr.com

Jon Carnes

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:02, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Hmmm, historically RoadRunner has not done this.  I wonder if this is a
> change in their setup/philosophy.  They used to only make sure that you
> were on their internal network and then they would forward your mail -
> no matter what you used as the from address.
> 
> I'll test from here.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 18:46, Heath Holcomb wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:54:24PM -0500, mike wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 17:28, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > > > Well that log entry says that it passed the mail off to
> > > > smtp-server.nc.rr.com.  So according to the logs it is working.
> > > > 
> > > > You say that you can receive mail. So if I send a note to
> > > > mike at redhat1.canismajor.org it will get to you?
> > > > 
> > > This is where I thought the problem may lay.  The mail address should be
> > > mike at canismajor.org so it maybe that I have something set incorrectly.
> > > 
> > > Mike
> > > 
> > 
> > For what it's worth, I just finished setting exim to use 
> > smtp-server.nc.rr.com as a smart host for outgoing mail and I found that
> > it would not work unless the From: header in the outgoing message contained my
> > Road Runner address.
> > 
> > The mail would be passed off to Road Runner, but would not be sent any
> > further. It appeared to be working correctly from looking at the logs
> > just as you say. I ended up having to configure exim to tranlate my local
> > email address into my RR address to get messages to actually go
> > somewhere.
> > 
> > I don't know anything about sendmail configuration files, so I can't really
> > tell if this is relevent to your problem, but whatever...
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > Heath
> 
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