Re: More questions on smail configuration for SMTP/PPP
Ian Jackson wrote:
> This won't set the return path and is therefore broken.
>
> As soon as Smail supports it (in 3.2, I think) the default
> configuration for Debian systems should be to REFUSE TO ACCEPT
> messages with patently bogus envelope return path information.
Hold on a second, Ian. While you may be right, you have given no help whatsoever
that would solve the problem that dynamic-IP PPP users are facing. We don't have
full control over what the sender attaches, and I think the solution posted by
Richard (I think) is flawed in the way that Oliver describes:
Oliver Oberdorf writes:
>>The problem with the solution presented above is if you want to send
>>mail *to your ISP* about something, it'll try and deliver locally.
>>For example, mail to root, support, webmaster, postmaster... @ISP.com
>>will all get delivered locally and you don't want that.
Richard Kettlewell agrees:
>Indeed not. AFAIK Smail can't solve this properly without some kind
>of wrapping - rewrites are not a feature of the program.
This seems to be a serious indictment of the proposed solution.
So Ian, before you change the configuration of Smail to make it reject messages
with bad return path information, you should work on creating a configuration
that works for most, if not all, ISP configurations. And I would still like to be
able to send mail to postmaster@ISP.com!
--
Jeff Ebert
jebert@earthlink.net
ho-hum
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