Sendmail Question

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I notice a strange problem from time to time with my combination of
> fetchmail and sendmail.  The default configuration of sendmail rejects
> unqualifyable sender addresses.  That's all fine and good but if one
> of those messages shows up in a batch of mail being fetched with
> fetchmail, It kicks me out with a return code of 10 and I can't
> subsequently fetch any of my accumulated mail off the server.  My only
> solution thus far is to relax the domain lookup restriction in
> sendmail; then I can fetch it all down.  Has anyone else on the list
> experienced this problem? If so, have you any solutions?

Hi.
I'm coming very late to this, so apologies if you've already had a
solution.
I don't know how to do it, but if you could persuade sendmail not to
handle smtp messages in batches, i.e. to handle each message in a separate
connection, while it might be a little more cpu intensive, it should solve
your problem.  As for me, I gave up on Sendmail because I didn't want to
learn md4, not to mention all those config files scattered everywhere, so
I use Exim instead, can be a bit of a pain to set up, but much easier to
make config changes imho.

Cheers.

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