SendMail question..

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Good answer.

Do a search for sendmail.mc (find / -name sendmail.mc) - it's probably in
/etc, but check to see if RedHat left extras lying around.  Give it a good
read-through, and you might come up with the right method - it's pretty well
commented.

Make a backup copy of the file before making any changes, then (as root) do:

m4 <inputfile>.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf; /etc/init.d/sendmail reload

Run some test messages to be sure it's working.

I can't come up with the actual recipe right now and my reference book's at
home, so if it doesn't shine out at you from the .mc file, try searching for
sendmail at www.tldp.org and sucking up some of the HOWTOs.

If you don't get anywhere, bug me and I'll look it up in the sendmail
handbook for you.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hutchings" <mark at desynergy.com>

> Because on one of my servers last week, I had a customer spamming all over
the
> internet (over 1200 emails sent), and since my servers are colocated, what
I
> think happened is someone did a lookup of the IP of the server and
reported it
> to the ISP where my servers are.  So after appologising over and over to
them
> (the ISP), they suggested adding the line to the headers to have the
complaints
> sent to me instead of them.  I was like "OK, I'll do that" but didnt ask
how to
> do it.
>
> Quoting Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com>:
>
> > ---- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Hutchings" <mark at desynergy.com>
> >
> > > How do I add something to the header info in RH 7.2?
> > > I need to add a "Report Abuse: email at address.com" to the headers.
> >
> > Maybe the question should be "should I add this header".  Why not just
> > alias
> > abuse at address.com as suggested in the RFC's, and save the internet one
> > extra
> > header times however many messages you process?
> >
>
>
>