RE: [cobalt-users] Sendmail Authentification Warning

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:59 am, Phil Beynon wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure why in formmail you would even need to set this,
>
> When used as it's intended, FormMail set's the user sending the email to
> the email address entered on the website.

Most of the uses of formmail I've seen simply send a feedback form to the
site owner, I still can't see why you would want the -f option set for that.

> > I took a look at the time I was writing that routine to see if I
> > could see way of suppressing the warnings in maillog, but after
> > reading a bit on the sendmail site gave up as it was to complicated
> > (for me anyway).
>
> You can suppress the message by setting up the siteadmin for every site
> using a form-to-email script such as FormMail as a sendmail trusted
> user (see sendmail documentation, or search the list archives), but I'd
> rather have this in the logs.

The sendmail trusted user bit was where I failed <smile> it is more
complicated than it sounds!
I agree about the logs!


>
> Jeff



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