Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-20 Thread Mike van der Velden
Hello, Recently I was asked by a client to migrate their mail services off a legacy NT server onto a Sun workstation running Solaris 2.5.1, and I was asked to install qmail rather than use the default sendmail. I'm new to qmail, but I was able to use the FAQs and INSTALL docs to help me get goin

Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-20 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:27:36PM -0800, Mike van der Velden wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I was asked by a client to migrate their mail services off a > legacy NT server onto a Sun workstation running Solaris 2.5.1, and I was > asked to install qmail rather than use the default sendmail. I'm ne

Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-20 Thread Sam
Mike van der Velden writes: > There are two outstanding questions: > > First, when a user on a Windows client machine uses Netscape Mail 4.7 to > send a message, the sender and return-path both say "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > However, when using Pegasus Mail 3.1.2 to send the same message, the > retu

Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-21 Thread Jim Breton
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Sam wrote: > The "return path" is specified solely by MUA, so this is entirely a Pegasus > Mail configuration issue. It is possible that other mail servers take it > upon themselves to rewrite the return address, but they should not really > do that, and it's none of their j

Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-21 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 03:57:17AM -0500, Jim Breton wrote: > More specifically, it is probably tcpserver (or whatever superserver he's > running) that is causing the ident requests. And this can easily be turned off. Regards, bert hubert -- +---+ | http://www.

Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-21 Thread Jim Breton
Yup... I'd already sent him a pvt msg detailing how to do that with tcpserver :) On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, bert hubert wrote: > And this can easily be turned off.

Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

1999-12-21 Thread thomas . erskine-dated-13f024134cc321ea
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mike van der Velden wrote: [snip] > Second, the firewall people have started to complain that ever since the > switch-over to qmail, they are seeing a lot of "auth" packets to and > from the qmail server to various remote sites. They want to know what > is going on. What so