Re: [cobalt-users] perl script-generated sendmail headers

["David Black" <DavidBlack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Thanks again, Olaf. I guess I need to move this thread to a 
> > perl board. I tried your (much appreciated) smtp snippet, but 
> > it made no difference. The resulting email header still had 
> > "Received: from httpd@localhost".
> > 
> 
> I don't think you're going to be able to remove that, but it's not what
> a domain outside of your server gets for a received line. It may be back
> in the headers as the form hands off to your sendmail, but the outside
> ISP should see a proper received line. They may be seeing
> httpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and it might be that there
> is no such user or alias on your server and you may need to add one.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Kriwitsky
> 

If that's the case, then why does the rejection notice look like this?

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The original message was received at Sun, 19 May 2002
18:04:48 -0500
from httpd@localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
intended@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
intended@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Deferred: Connection refused
by recipient.com.
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue
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Thanks for your interest, Dan. I appreciate your valuable time 
(and everyone else's on this list, for tolerating my OT thread).

:D
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David Black
Web Developer
www.theWaveCave.com
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