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- From: envwpk@epb2.lbl.gov (Werner P. Keilholz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: How to set Return PATH ?
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 14:47:41 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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- Message-ID: <27243@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- Reply-To: envwpk@epb2.lbl.gov (Werner P. Keilholz)
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- Asked the following question in comp.unix.questions, but apparently it is
- so wizardly, nobody replied. So I try here...
-
- Sorry, I posted this question before, but in the meantime our system
- broke down, so I didn't get any replies. I appologize to everybody
- who tried to answer and got an error of the style 'service not
- available...'.
-
- My problem is, how to configure the Return-Path used by the mailer
- when it is creating headers. In principle, my mailer works fine, i.e.
- I can send and receive mail via the net. However, if people try to use
- the REPLY function of their mailers to answer mail comming from our site,
- the replies bounce, because the mailer generated a wrong 'RETURN-PATH:'
- line.
-
- I checked the man on sendmail, and it says the configuration is done in
- /etc/sendmail.cf . In this file I indeed found a line like
- RETURN PATH: <$g>
-
- Great. But where is $g defined ??? Of course, I could put in some
- constant string, but I only want to receive the replies to my own mails,
- not *everybody's* !
-
- Thanks for any kind of hint !
-
- Werner
-
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