Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?
On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Dan Brosemer <dbroseme@sm2141.glfc.forestry.ca> writes:
>
> > FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the
> > problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I
> > believe you both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the domain that
> > is sent in the MAIL FROM: line. Note that it doesn't care about you being
> > inside the sympatico.ca domain.
> <rest snipped>
>
> Well, I personally don't think that *that* is the problem. My outgoing
> mail bounces from the foreign servers, not sympatico's. Most of my
> mail goes through w/o a glitch, and only on *some* occasions it
> bounces from the recipent's server.
[snipped the masquerading-envelope bit]
Are you trying to deliver mail yourself or using the smtp1.sympatico.ca as
a smarthost? I'd reccomend the latter as it saves you bandwidth and is
easier to configure. It sounds like you're doing the former.
-Dano
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