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- From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: no email confirmation
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:57:44 GMT
- Organization: Michigan State University
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- >Having two (possibly related) problems with NeXTMail.
- I am assuming you mean Mail.app (I call it NeXTmail too)
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- >1) No receipt is ever received (I request a read receipt, the addressee
- >reads the message, but I never get a receipt).
- I think you only get a reciept if it is read by a NeXT, and maybe only with
- Mail.app . If you read it with unix-mail or pine, I don't know if you get one.
- I'm certain I've never gotten one when sending to non-NeXTs.
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- >2) The nodename on messages is being truncated
- >(userid@crob.flint.umich.edu becomes userid@crob). This is OK as long as
- >our local nameserver is running, but when it is down (or overworked),
- >messages are sent on to its nameserver for processing and the message
- >bounces with Host Unknown. Also - it seems to only be doing it to messages
- >destined for the same domain (userid@infotech.tamu.edu works OK).
- We had a similar problem, I think that is some bizarre stuff in your
- sendmail.cf file (I am assuming you mean the nodename on your return address?).
- It was a LOT of changes, ended up gtting one (sendmil.cf) that was configured
- for MSU and doing a search and replace on the domain names.
- Even then, stuff like PINE and TIN still goofed up the return addresses until
- I modified their RC files.
-
- Good Luck
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- Gary J LaPointe
- gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
- Michigan State University
- Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
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