[KLUG Members] sendmail question

[Dirk H Bartley]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 10:19, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > A particular customer of ours is spam blocking email sent to them from
> > us.  I believe after examining the headers of the messages that this is
> > being caused by the following in the header:
> > Return-Path: <vsifax@srvbai1.schupan>
> > 
> > This is coming from vsifax through an autosend directory feature so I
> > can not just add a -f option in a sendmail command line.  I've searched
> > the vsifax manual for a fix but have not found an appropriate tag.  Is
> > there a way to get sendmail to mangle the header to show a return-path
> 
> You should be able to do it in sendmail, but it would seem like you
> could customize the vsifax package - after all, you already have the
> string "schupan" in the return path.  Where is it getting that?  Find
> out where that's coming from and change it to "schupan.com".

Unfortunately, I already looked there.  Vsifax is getting the string
srvbai1.schupan  from a hostname system call.  There is a vsifax tag
that is changing the from address in the header, but it is not changing
the return path like a -f option in a sendmail command would.

> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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