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Re: My ISP complaining about e-mail address...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Fri Oct 16 10:09:35 1998

Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:07:22 -0400 (EWT)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: Red Hat Users List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810161005280.2136-100000@winbuster.magic.fr>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Zoki wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
> 
> ->On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Zoki wrote:
> ->
> ->> It confirmed me with a mail that
> ->> everything *is* okay... However, today I got a mail from my ISP's tech
> ->> service saying that I'm doing something wrong, that my e-mail is "VERY
> ->> badly" (shiver, shiver) configured because it seems also that there're a
> ->> lot of messages sent back due to mistakes, etc, etc, etc...
> ->> 
> ->> This has left me stunned with amazement. Well, it's not that bad, I just
> ->> would like to know what could be wrong when nothing seems to *be* wrong!? 
> ->
> ->My guess would be that it's an envelope issue with sendmail... go to
> ->http://www.moongroup.com/unix/quicktips.html#envelope
> ->and have a read I had the same issue when I started up.
> 
> 
> *** Thanks Chuck,
> 
> I got a reply from the ISP yesterday evening. It was a problem on their
> side. Your page helped me find some minor problems in my sendmail config.
> The explenation how to generate a sendmail.cf file is very good.
> 
Cool... glad I could help!  What would you think about a new mailing
list for procmail, sendmail, apache, and vdom setups for Linux?
There are lists for all of these thing individually but none of them
address Linux specifically or the fact that in 9 of 10 installs it
all has to work together.

--                         
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/

The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.  The goal of nature
is to build better mice.



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