Hey Matthew, would it be possible to email the admin of
that domain and tell them to stop blocking messages
with empty return-path headers? It is against RFC to do
so but they probably won't care. They are stupid for doing
it as bounces from most mail servers will not be delivered
to them... That server you connected to seems to be
running IMail which is a garbage NT-based mail server
that I've had problems with before for other reasons. I
only suggest contacting them first because I was having the
same problem last week with someone who's running RedHat 6.2
where linuxconf stupidly configured sendmail to do the same
thing. When I told the admin how to fix it, he was happy
to do so because he didn't even realize it was doing that
by default.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: return path of bounce messages
This question has probably been asked before, but here goes. I recieved a
double-bounce message in my mailbox today. Someone had tried to send a
message to a bad address
within my domain. When my qmail box tried to bounce it back to the sender,
the remote server said "501 bogus mail from". Is there anyway to change the
Return-Path of my
bounce messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Included below is the bounce
portion of the message.
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Matthew H Patterson
Unix Systems Administrator
National Support Center, LLC
Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Return-Path: <#@[]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 22857 invoked for bounce); 19 Feb 2001 18:49:13 -0000
Date: 19 Feb 2001 18:49:13 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Status: R
X-Status: N
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.nsc-support.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Connected to 216.25.58.119 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 501 bogus mail from
--- Below this line is the original bounce.
Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 22855 invoked for bounce); 19 Feb 2001 18:49:12 -0000
Date: 19 Feb 2001 18:49:12 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.nsc-support.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
