Thank you to Mike and Roger, both your suggestions were correct!
I did indeed have a "-h 1" in my resend line in my aliases file, why I do
not know. It is gone now.
My majordomo.cf was a bit hosed, and was not picking up the $whoami =
hostname line correctly. I fixed that as well. I also added my userid to
the Trusted users in sendmail.cf
it seems to much better, now. Thanks to you both!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Oliver" <Mike.Oliver@Sun.COM>
To: <sm@troop899.org>
Cc: <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with headers
> "troop899" <sm@troop899.org> wrote:
>
> > X-Authentication-Warning:santeelodge.org: santeelodge set sender to
> > owner-santee@1 using -f
>
> That header is inserted by your MTA (usually sendmail) because it
> hasn't been told to "trust" the user 'santeelodge'. You can get rid
> of the header by telling the MTA that 'santeelodge' can be trusted.
> The details of how to do that will vary from one MTA to another.
> Traditionally for sendmail you'd add a line:
>
> Tsanteelodge
>
> to sendmail.cf, alongside whatever trusted users are already listed.
> (usually 'daemon', 'root' and 'uucp'.) If you're using the m4-based
> configuration then you'd usually activate 'use_ct_file' and read the
> list of trusted usernames from a separate file named sendmail.ct.
>
> > The owner-santee@1 thing is obviously wrong... And this:
>
> Right, that's much more important. The right-hand side of that address
> ("1") is built from the $whereami variable defined in your
> majordomo.cf. What does:
>
> grep '^\$whereami' majordomo.cf
>
> show?
>
> > How do I fix this, should I bother,
>
> Yes you should fix it. If you leave it as is then any reports of
> undeliverable mail will not get back to you, instead they'll cause a
> double-bounce and leave the report in the postmaster mailbox at the
> site you were trying to deliver to. Those postmasters don't need that
> kind of aggravation.
>
> > and could this be causing ISPs like AOL
> > to automatically trash my majordomo mail?
>
> Possibly. A paranoid mailserver might refuse to deliver mail that has
> an egregiously malformed header field like that. If your list has a
> lot of AOL subscribers it's also possible that AOL is refusing to let
> you deliver one piece of mail to many recipients, in which case you'd
> have to talk to the AOL postmaster and get them to make an exception
> for your list or use something like bulk_mailer to spread out the
> delivery so that any given message has only a small number of
> recipients. When you've fixed the Sender header you'll start seeing
> rejection notices which should tell you more about why your messages
> are being trashed.
>
> Mike.
> --
> mike.oliver@eng.sun.com
>
>
>
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