[KLUG Members] sendmail question

[Dirk H Bartley]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 13:29, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > >Looks like it may be checking our internal nameserver.  Our internal
> > >nameserver has all internal hosts as schupan as opposed to schupan.com. 
> > >We are planning on changing that.  The internal server would still be
> > >srvbai1.schupan.com
> > It'd be worth a try changing "schupan" to "schupan.com" (IMO).
> > It _might_ even work to put it in /etc/hosts, as a quick hack.
> > > though after which would probably still be blocked.
> > I don't think spam checkers actually check if the host accepts email,
> > I believe they are just checking for legal names.
> 
> We have started to recieve ounces from various sites unless the
> send/reply address corresponds to the MX record(s). Seems really anal,
> but maybe it is a trend.

This is a recent thing for us as well.  I did fix the issue.  It was in
the vsisrv.ini file's VMAIL section.  Instead of having the mail sent
through the localhost's server, I am using our company's smtp server. 
This way the local server does not have the chance to put information in
the header.

Dirk
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