[imp] mail headers

[Steven Patterson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Ustinov" <Nick.Ustinov@videinfra.lv>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:32 PM


> X-Authentication-Warning: satan.inbox.lv: nobody set sender to
> kasjauns@inbox.lv using -f
>
> Is it my sendmail problem or IMP ?

It's sendmail.  IMP always runs as user nobody so has to set the username
for the outgoing email to something else (so that all the mails aren't from
nobody@inbox.lv).  Sendmail sees this and adds a warning to the message to
say that it's been "faked".

Solution is to edit your /etc/sendmail.cf or /etc/mail/sendmail.cf or
whereever else your sendmail.cf file might be and add "nobody" to the
trusted class.  Look for lines, of the form:

#####################
#   Trusted users   #
#####################

# this is equivalent to setting class "t"
#Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users
Troot
Tdaemon
Tuucp

The simple answer is to add a line below these which reads:

Tnobody

If your file instead defines a file class, i.e. you have an uncommented
(doesn't start with a #) line starting "Ft" with a file path immediately
following it then instead you will need to add "nobody" to the file
specified.

Hope that helps, since it's a little off-topic imp feel free to mail me
directly if you need any more help.

Steve
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Steven Patterson, MSci ----------------------------------------------+
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