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тАО09-09-2002 09:15 AM
тАО09-09-2002 09:15 AM
sendmail and "junk" header
Anyone know why this is happening and how to stop it?
Thanks!
Brian
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Brian L. Amstutz
Director of Computing Systems
Asbury Theological Seminary
204 N. Lexington Ave.
Wilmore, KY 40390
Email: Brian_Amstutz@AsburySeminary.edu
Tel: 859-858-2321
Fax: 859-858-2330
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тАО09-10-2002 04:36 AM
тАО09-10-2002 04:36 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
grep -i junk /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
If you come with any information, it's most likely someone configured sendmail specifically for that.
I'd like to see the lines, if you do come up with anything.
I'm not sure why the mail admin would not be able to do anything about this; unless he's not in charge of the unix side of things.
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тАО09-10-2002 04:57 AM
тАО09-10-2002 04:57 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
grep -i junk /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Pjunk=-100
I'm actually the Unix sysadmin so I could change something if I knew what I needed to change (our email admin is admin on an NT system running our non-Unix campus wide email system)
It looks like the above (Pjunk=-100) is setting some kind of priority for junk mail but WHY is it doing it for .forwarded mail?
Thanks!
Brian
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Brian L. Amstutz
Director of Computing Systems
Asbury Theological Seminary
204 N. Lexington Ave.
Wilmore, KY 40390
Email: Brian_Amstutz@AsburySeminary.edu
Tel: 859-858-2321
Fax: 859-858-2330
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тАО09-10-2002 05:15 AM
тАО09-10-2002 05:15 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
Can you post an example header so we can see where it's putting the word "junk"?
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тАО09-10-2002 05:19 AM
тАО09-10-2002 05:19 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
The "P" assigns a Precendence or weighting for the message when the queue is processed. Normally, top priority is "special-delivery", lowest is "junk". As far as I know, it will not alter the message in any way.
Another process must be adding the "word to the header.
Rgds, Robin
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тАО09-10-2002 06:01 AM
тАО09-10-2002 06:01 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
Pfirst-class=0
Pspecial-delivery=100
Plist=-30
Pbulk=-60
Pjunk=-100
And these are out-of-the-box defaults for precedence.
Just for grins try the grep again on all sendmail files:
grep -i junk /etc/mail/*
On my system I got a hit on only one other file but it wasn't related.
There -is- a bunch of stuff in sendmail.cf about forwarding and .forward files. Alas that stuff is beyond my experience at the moment.
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тАО09-10-2002 06:24 AM
тАО09-10-2002 06:24 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
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тАО09-11-2002 11:55 AM
тАО09-11-2002 11:55 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
Brian
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0)/8.7.1) id PAA26210 for brian; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:51:44 -0400 (EDT)
H?D?Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:51:44 -0400 (EDT)
H?F?From: Brian Amstutz
H?x?Full-Name: Brian Amstutz
H?M?Message-Id: <200209111951.PAA26210@Daniel3.asburyseminary.edu>
HTo: brian
HSubject: test
HMime-Version: 1.0
HContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
HContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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тАО09-11-2002 03:02 PM
тАО09-11-2002 03:02 PM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
is the priority
initially set by the following calculation (from the Bat Book):
priority=nbytes - (class * z) + (recipients * y)
nbytes - size of message
class - value given to message by Precedence: header (converted to a numeric based on the P command in sendmail.cf)
z - ClassFactor in sendmail.cf
recipients - number of recipients
y-RecipientFactor
This stuff all adds up to set initial priority - which then gets adjusted by configurations in sendmail.cf each time it tries to deliver a message.
The Precendence: header isn't set by sendmail, it's set by your MUA, but used in the priority calculation by sendmail (i.e. it looks like something else is setting the Precedence: header).
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тАО09-13-2002 04:58 AM
тАО09-13-2002 04:58 AM
Re: sendmail and "junk" header
If I send mail directly to our campus email server, it is NOT labeled as "junk". It is only labeled as "junk" if it's routed through a .forward file.
If I send it using the mailx "-r" option (to set sender address) it does NOT get labeled as "junk" at all (either directly or via .forward) UNLESS the -r domain name is the name of the UNIX system that I'm sending the mail from - even bogus domain names work OK as sender address (e.g. brian@kjdfkj.jljaf).
So...., what does that tell me?
Thanks!
Brian