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mikebremford	Posted: Mar 18 2004, 11:18 AM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Member No.: 995 Joined: 18-March 04	Hi all I'm running xmail 1.17 and retrieving mail using fetchmail 6.2.0. The problem is when sending local mail using /bin/mail or just directly into sendmail.xmail, the mail is sent correctly but fetchmail is refusing to download it because the "Return-Path" header is empty. For example # echo test \| /bin/mail mike@mydomain.com results in Return-Path: <> Delivered-To: mike@mydomain.com Received: from /spool/local by big.faceless.org with [XMail 1.17 (Linux/Ix86) LMAIL Server] for <mike@big.faceless.org> from <>; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 05:13:04 -0500 To: mike@mydomain.com From: <> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 05:13:02 -0500 Any ideas how I can set the from address and return path? Here's my "server.tab" "RootDomain" "big.faceless.org" "SmtpServerDomain" "big.faceless.org" "PostMaster" "postmaster@big.faceless.org" "RemoveSpoolErrors" "0" "MaxMTAOps" "16" "ReceivedHdrType" "0" "FetchHdrTags" "+X-Deliver-To,+Received,To,Cc" "SMTP-RDNSCheck" "0" "CheckMailerDomain" "0" "DefaultSmtpPerms" "MRVZ" Cheers... Mike

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sendmail

When building XMail, an executable called 'sendmail' is created. This is a replacement of the sendmail program used mostly on Unix systems; it uses the local mail delivery of XMail to send email generated onto the server machine. These sendmail options are supported (other options are simply ignored):

-f{mail from}
Set the sender of the email.

-F{ext mail from}
Set the extended sender of the email.

-t
Extract recipients from the 'To:'/'Cc:'/'Bcc:' header tags.

The syntax is:

sendmail [-t] [-f...] [-F...] [--input-file fname] [--xinput-file fname]=>
[--rcpt-file fname] [--] recipient ...

The message content is read from the standard input and must be RFC compliant.

The following parameters are XMail extensions meant to be used with mailing lists managers (using sendmail as a mail list exploder):

--input-file fname
take the message from the specified file instead from stdin (RFC format).

--xinput-file fname
take the message from the specified file instead from stdin (XMail format).

--rcpt-file fname
add recipients listed inside the specified file (list exploder).

To be RFC compliant means that the message MUST have the format:

[Headers]
NewLine
Body

Suppose you have your message in the file 'msg.txt', you're 'xmailuser@smartdomain', and you want to send the message to 'user1@dom1' and 'user2@dom2'. The syntax is:

sendmail -fxmailuser@smartdomain user1@dom1 user2@dom2 < msg.txt

or

sendmail -fxmailuser@smartdomain --input-file msg.txt user1@dom1 user2@dom2

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