topic Re: linux sendmail AND imail server in Operating System - Linux

linux sendmail AND imail server

Rick Garland — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:35:13 GMT

Hi all:

RH Linux 2.1AS
imail server web messaging v8.02

Haven't seen this one before...

I am sending mail from the Linux server to an address that exists on the imail server. Per the processes on the Linux server the message was stat=sent, it is gone.

Looking on the imail server the message never appears.

Sending from HPUX or Solaris to the same address on the imail works fine.

What I have discovered, in formatting the mail from Linux, if I insert the header info again in the body of the message then the message gets delivered to the imail server. Example,

FROM:bozo
TO:me@somewhere.com
DATA:
This is a test
.

Realize that the above example is in the body of the message. Seems like the actual mail headers are being ignored.

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

Re: linux sendmail AND imail server

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:21:51 GMT

I've thought about this for a while and do not have a solution.

The first thing I do in such circumstances is diagnostic email.

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 me@somewhere.com
Will SEP ever get another linux point

.

See if that verbose diagnosis gives you a clue as to whats going on.

Does imail have a log?

Whats in /var/log/maillog ??

SEP

Re: linux sendmail AND imail server

Rick Garland — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:33:27 GMT

I have found a solution (maybe the solution?).

I copied a sendmail.cf from a HPUX system and made the requisite changes to have that conf file work.

In the sendmail.cf file is a stanza that states:
# save Unix-style "From_" lines at top of header?
0 SaveFromLine

By default this stanza is commented. I removed the comment and recycled the sendmail daemon.

It now works!