On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, George Wright wrote:
> Thanks all for the responses,
>
> I called my isp, and they said they could help me if I was using
> Outlook or Eudora :0 , but otherwise I was out of luck.
>
> Another user suggested putting a useable alias address
> in /etc/email-addresses, so I'll try this over the weekend
> to see if it helps get something in there that is "sensible."
>
> I know I can alter my hostname in the /etc/exim.conf file, but
> I am leary of this because 1) For it to be correct, I'd have to
> add something in front of the '@' symbol (my isp name is
> gtw3, my debian user name is gtw) and 2) I'm not the only
> one who would be using exim as the mua, so if another user
> sent mail it would have the wrong address on it and 3) that
> may impact local delivery (which works well btw).
What MUA are you using? You should be able to send your sender address
there..
>
> Again, thanks everyone for your help, George
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nigel Metheringham
> > [mailto:Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:03 AM
> > To: George Wright; 'exim-users@???'
> > Subject: Re: [Exim] Remote delivery problem on dialup
> >
> >
> >
> > GWright@??? said:
> > > 2001-01-11 15:20:43 14GoDD-0000hb-00 <= gtw@cyclops U=gtw P=local
> > > S=449 id=20010111152042.A2698@cyclops 2001-01-11 15:20:45
> >
> > Unless that originator address is being rewritten elsewhere, I'd say
> > your problem is there.
> >
> > I'd guess what happens is that the system at 207.172.4.99 is not
> > verifying sender addresses (bad idea), and accepting your mail. It
> > then tries to send the mail on to the final destination,
> > which refuses
> > to accept it as gtw@cyclops cannot be verified. Then your smarthost
> > box is trying to send an error message back to you, but
> > cannot route to
> > gtw@cyclops so from your point of view the mail just disappears.
> >
> > If you send mail off your machine you *must* have the sender
> > addresses
> > set to something sensible that you own.
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
> >
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> >
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