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RE: [cobalt-users] Sendmail's Return Path is localhost



> I am on a RaQ XTR (440? I thinks it's 400 series for sure not 
> 550). Anyways, I had a sendmail script that use to work and 
> had the following headers:
> 
> Return-Path: <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Received: (from anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> 
> I had some RAM installed 2 weeks ago, and when they installed 
> the RAM they just turned the server off and put it in  (no 
> shutting down of deamons, etc).  Since then my script now 
> comes with the headers as

That wasn't very clever of them!

> Return-Path: <anup>
> Received: (from anup@localhost)
> 
> I believe that maybe my /etc/hosts files has been changed. It 
> currently has two entries "127.0.0.1 localhost" and  my IP 
> and server domain name.
> 
> Any thoughts or venues I can turn to will be great appreciated.
> 
> Anup

It could be a corrupted file somewhere due to the nasty shutdown,
hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on this.

/etc/hosts sounds ok though.

~
Steven Young