Hi All

I recently heard that sendmail has introduced a fix that should help prevent spamming through other people's mail servers.

The problem is that this new file started to be created - dead.letter

Here is what I heard:


It solved it for our perl script.

HTH

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Cool, I'll have a look at that.. may help in the future if people are having similar problems :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Yeah. Even my host hadn't heard of this

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Hi,

-f isn't new, it just sets the envelope from (i.e. who the mail is really from, and what mail servers look at when bouncing messages). It's not really related to spamming, but is a good idea to set as you can control where bounces go.

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Thanks, Alex

The creation of the dead.letter file never occurred before. That's what got me. The script that caused it has been used for years without such an issue. I guess there is some setting at the current host that invoked this.

Cheers

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FYI

Sometimes I see a file called mbox in my "home" directory and that is where my webhost appends bounced messages that have fake return address for our domain. After it hits a meg or so I'll upload an empty file over it just to keep things tidy.