Re: Another MMDF issue - sending full recipient mail addresses

From: Simon Hobson (simonsnews_at_thehobsons.codotuk)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:36:42 +0100

On Mon, 23 May 2005 20:54:14 +0100, John DuBois wrote
(in message <1194d76nrtt4619@corp.supernews.com>):

> In the outbound channel parameters, "ap=822, ap=try" will cause the channel
> to add the local mail system domain name to a local-part-only address when
> mail is transmitted via that channel. So, you'd probably want to set this
> in the "MCHN smtp" record in mmdftailor.

Like this I assume :

> MCHN show="Smart-host Routing for hosts", name=badhosts, que=badhosts,
> tbl=smtpchn, pgm=smtp, ap=822. ap=try, mod=imm,
> confstr="charset=7bit,hostname=candle1.colony.com",
> host="smtpmail.colony.com"
> MCHN show="Smart-host routing for users", name=badusers, que=badusers,
> tbl=smtpchn, pgm=smtp, ap=822, ap=try, mod=imm,
> confstr="keepdomain=1,charset=7bit,hostname=candle1.colony.com",
> host="smtpmail.colony.com"

> If you do this, you will probably want to also use
> a current smtp inbound channel (smtpsrvr) and set "vrfy_sender_domain=1" in
> its
> confstr, else the system will happily accept local-part-only mail from
> outside
> and then add your own system's domain to it when it canonicalizes the
> headers.

Can I simply disable inbound mail altogether ? This system will never need to
process mail that it did not originate.

I know it's probably bad form to merge threads, but I had meant to delete one
of the outbound messages ...

In "Re: MMDF dropping domain name" you wrote :

>>> ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/mmdf/submit
>>
>> I downloaded this, but when I replace the submit binary, nothing is
>> delivered
>> - no connection to the destination mailserver, nothing in messages or
>> syslog.
>> Looking at the binaries, there is a HUGE difference in size (submit.jdb is
>> the one downloaded from ftp.armory.com) :
>>
>>> # ls -lL sub*
>>> -rws--x--x 1 mmdf mmdf 144056 Aug 8 2001 submit
>>> -rws--x--x 1 mmdf mmdf 266352 May 23 13:00 submit.jdb
>>> #
>
> What happens if you try running it directly?
> It should hang waiting for input until you hit ^D.

It does.

Simon

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