Re: [Nmh-workers] I need help configuring nmh 1.4

[norm]

Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
>>       norm: loses; [USER] 550 5.1.1 <norm>... User unknown
>>     post: 1 addressee undeliverable send: message not delivered to anyone
>
>So, I'm wondering ... previous version of nmh worked fine, is that
>right?

I'm very sorry. I was unclear. As far as I know, the problem probably has little
to do with the upgrade. I recently installed Linux on the computer in question
(It previously ran Microsoft Windows), so I installed the latest version, 1.4,
of nmh on it. I have had similar problems with nmh 1.2 and nmh 1,3. I haven't
been able to send purely local mail -- mail which never leaves my computer.

But when I installed vanilla nmh 1.4, lo and behold the problem disappeared, 
only
to rear its old ugly head when I changed /usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf.

>
>What version did you have previously? If you still have that old version of nmh
>around, what does it say when you say "send -snoop"?
>
>I'm reading your bounce email ... and I'm puzzled as to how upgrading to nmh
>1.4 fixed this problem. I mean, it was complaining that you didn't have a
>reverse DNS entry; how did upgrading nmh fix that? Or is it that you changed
>your nmh configuration to always submit via SMTP to your ISP instead of a local
>sendmail instance?
>
>This gets into a more complicated issue ... should nmh fully canonicalize
>addresses on the "To:" line? Is that a server-side policy?
>
>It occurs to me that a simple solution would be to put an alias for "norm" to
>"address@hidden".
>

Yes, but then the mail would not be processed purely locally, which I would like
to do for certain purposes, but getting the time stamps etc that post/sendmail
provide.


    Norman Shapiro
    798 Barron Avenue
    Palo Alto CA 94306-3109
    (650) 565-8215
    address@hidden