[ale] odd email issue

[Geoffrey Myers]

David Tomaschik wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> This is what I said about environment.  You believe you're using
>>> Sendmail - but what if root is seeing a Postfix installation and trying
>>> to use that?   There are many things that can be configured in email
>>> setups.   For example here I have some servers using "smarttable" so
>>> that emails sent from one domain relay out a host we have Sendmail
>>> running on but all other email relays out our Exchange host.
>> The return error message references sendmail.  Further, postfix is not
>> installed.
>>
> 
> I think I misunderstood your original message.  1and1 is effectively
> bouncing the messages because it cannot find
> centosvm.serioustechnology.com?  Is that a correct assessment?
> 
> Is it possible that these are an anti-spam measure based on the sending address?

True, but I don't understand what is different when I send it from root 
verses a non root user.

> 
> Headers and bounce messages are likely to make obvious what the
> problem is.  Maybe the headers are being altered when the alias is
> evaluated.  Perhaps $MAILHOST is set in one environment, but not
> another.

It's complaining about the sending domain.  I don't understand that 
either as I've got sendmail masq to serioustechnology.com


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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