YASP (Yet Another Sendmail Problem)

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 23:33:01 EST 2005


On 12/17/05, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> Hi. I zoomed in further on what my problem is but I have no idea how to
> fix it. I placed a copy of my sendmail.mc at
>
> http://steveo.syslang.net/sendmail.mc

  Yikes.  That's some serious Sendmail-fu.  If you remove all those
sophisticated anti-spam contortions, and reduce it to a minimal
sendmail.mc, does it start working?  If not, can you post that minimal
sendmail.mc file?  If that does fix the problem, start adding those
hieroglyphics back in in functional units until it breaks.

On 12/17/05, Bill Mullen <moon at lunarhub.com> wrote:
> Umm, I assume that you mean something short of "switch to an MTA that
> can be fairly easily configured by mere mortals, like Postfix"? :-)

  In Sendmail's defense, masquerading is normally as simple as putting

MASQUERADE_AS(`example.com')

in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and typing "make" in that directory.  The OP
has created/imported some anti-spam measures that go well beyond your
"typical" config.

  I normally treat sendmail.cf as I would the output of any compiler:
Not human-readable.  :)

-- Ben "There are people who can read raw core dumps, too" Scott



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