[ale] weird mail issue

[Geoffrey]

dmcnash at charter.net wrote:
> I knew in the back of my failing memory that there was another step.
> 
> In sendmail.cf (last modified in 2004):
> ...
> # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
> DMcharter.net

Got that too, but didn't resolve the problem.

> But nobody still uses sendmail anymore, do they?

Only on this machine.  It was for a specific client request.  I use 
postfix on the rest of my boxes.

> 
> It is strange that root is different.

Yeah, I just don't get that.

> --
> doug mcnash
> 
> ---- Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote: 
>> dmcnash at charter.net wrote:
>>> Try adding a REPLYTO to your root environment
>>> i.e. REPLYTO=dmcnash at charter.net
>> No, didn't work.  What I had to do was modify the actual machine name to 
>> make it match a valid domain.  Weird that the problem was only exhibited 
>> when sending mail as root.
>>
>> -- 
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
>> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
>> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>>   - Benjamin Franklin
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-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin