[Sheflug] Reply-To headers this time.

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

OK, if this gets through to the list, with only a slightly mangled
header, I'll be a happy man.

I've decided not to have VM know what my real email address is, and
just get on with it and throw my emails to Qmail to deal with.
At the same time, I've checked the "use RFC822" option.

God-and-sysadmins-only-know what exactly that will accomplish, but
early indications are favourable :-)

You'll all have to excuse me for being a pain in the behind with all
this XEmacs, VM, and Qmail mallarky...I've got a bit of time to spare
these days :-)

Baz.

Barrie Bremner writes:
 > 
 > I've decided that mailservers are a pain in the behind.
 > More accurately badly configured mailservers, and bizarre standards (or
 > maybe people just not adhering to standards, I dunno).
 > 
 > Obviously my Qmail config wasn't (as still isn't) perfectly set up to
 > deal with all the wierdness required of it because it's not an internet
 > visible host.
 > 
 > I have now set up user masquarading so that Qmail recognises that I
 > should be known as TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net for email, and not my local
 > designation of baz [at] flux.localdomain.
 > 
 > Now, I have (hopefully) one final problem to sort this out once and for
 > all:
 > 
 > I am now seeing:
 > 
 > Feb  2 20:34:18 flux qmail: 981146058.264330 delivery 115: failure:
 > Connected_to_62.172.47.250_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_550_rejected:_cannot_route_to_sender_<baz [at] flux.localdomain>/
 > 
 > I've also seen in headers the following:
 > 
 > X-BadReturnPath: baz [at] flux.localdomain rewritten as
 > TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net using "Reply-To" header
 > 
 > It seems that Qmail is now adjusting emails so they appear to be from
 > TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net (baz..not rewritten as..TheEnglishman..)
 > however the return path doesn't seem to right!!!
 > 
 > Arrgh!!!!!
 > 
 > Could someone help me out here?
 > 
 > Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner

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