On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Keith Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, Kenneth Stephen wrote:
>
>
> please don't confuse my response here to David Huybregts'. I began
> this thread. in my case i read the manuals and asked specific
> questions and received no responses. not even rtfm
>
I did see your original message and didnt reply to it because (1)
it was about kmail - which I havent used (2) it was about setting up a
mail alias - which I havent had occasion to do (3) it seemed to be about
sendmail - which I dont use. Davids' message, on the other hand, contained
an obvious misconception which I could reply to.
> to be clear: kmail gives the user two choices -- smtp OR sendmail.
> (I don' t know what you do if you want to use smail or some other
> mta.)
>
I believe that sendmail has become so much of a standard that
competing MTA's install themselves as symbolic links to the sendmail
binaries. At least, that is the way the default Debian MTA (exim)
installs. So, even if you are using another MTA, you shouldnt (in theory)
see a difference.
> Now, all i want to do is send a one-way newsletter to about 500
> people. I was told on this list the easiest way to suppress
> recipients is to use alias. I read all I could on the topic and set
> up some test aliases. I read this needed to work through
> sendmail.
>
> I tested with the smpt choice in kmail's settings and the test's
> failed.
>
Cant help you there. Sorry.
> so I swithced the setting to sendmail, configured sendmail as best
> i could (per my earlier letter on this thread) and tested. seemed
> to work so I used sendmail for four days. EXCEPT certain addresses
> did not receive mail. Those addresses seem to be aol and compuserve
> addresses. Unfortunately I didn't receive any error messages,
> mailer daemon messages or aol postmaster messages. so it apears the
> mail was received but not delivered.
>
> my guess would be some kind of aol anti-spam mechanism clicked in.
> I realize how that sounds oxymoron-esque. ;-)
>
>
> In any event, what i am trying to do is extremely basic -- send to
> a distro list.
>
> any help would be appreciated.
>
>
Could you send a mail to me using the problem alias? I would like
to take a look at the headers and see if anything obvious shows up.
Regards,
Kenneth