[TriLUG] sendmail header question

Turnpike Man turnpike420 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 28 17:35:05 EST 2003


My /etc/hosts is default, just has this line in it:
127.0.0.1       bertha          localhost.localdomain localhost
/etc/host.conf: order host,bind (should it be bind,host?)

If I "telnet bertha.mydomain.com 25" from my work computer I get this reposnse:

220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Fri, 28 Mar 2003
17:04:3
7 -0500

I used to get:

220 bertha.mydomain.com etc...

Now... per Jeremy, I didn't want to reboot, but I said heck with it and
rebooted... now from work I get:

220 bertha.turnpike420.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Fri, 28 Mar 2003
17:10:
16 -0500

which is what I had originally expected! ... and an email header is (and I
usually use TWIG, sometimes PINE):

---
Received: from bertha.mydomain.com ([REAL IP HERE]) by wicket.anotherdomain.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905);
	 Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:25:09 -0500
Received: from mydomain.com (bertha [127.0.0.1])
	by bertha.mydomain.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h2SMBq001255
	for <myemail at dynpro.com>; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:11:53 -0500
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:11:52 -0000
To: <myemail at anotherdomain.com>
Subject: get header
From: "D M" <myemail at mydomain.com>
X-Mailer: TWIG 2.7.7
Message-ID: <twig.1048889512.47828 at mydomain.com>
Reply-To: myemail at mydomain.com
Return-Path: myemail at mydomain.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Mar 2003 22:25:09.0152 (UTC)
FILETIME=[E4190200:01C2F578]
---

So now it seems all is fixed except for this line:
Received: from mydomain.com (bertha [127.0.0.1])

Now... what is really strange is this was all as you see it now until
recently... it must have been up2date of either sendmail or some other package
for RH 7.2 that did this to me.  I can't imagine it would have happened any
other way.  I know it worked before b/c I can remember being super thrilled and
running around the room that I had figured it out!!  8) *geekdom at its best*

Well, any thoughts on that last bit would be helpful!  Thanks Joseph and
Jeremy!

David M.

--- Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com> wrote:
> Make sure that you're not connecting from localhost:  from localhost I get:
> 
>     HELO jtate.dragonstrider.com
>     250 www.dragonstrider.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], 
> pleased to meet you
> 
> But from a work computer, I get:
>     HELO jtate.mi-messages.com
>     250 www.dragonstrider.com Hello [204.85.2.183], pleased to meet you
> 
> If you don't get 250 <your hostname here> then you can manually set it 
> in the sendmail.cf file.
> look for Cwlocalhost.localdomain, but make sure you don't have something 
> screwy in your /etc/hosts file.
> 
> Joseph
>

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