Re: qmail-send rewriting the envelope?

Brian Reichert <[email protected]> Tue, 14 May 2019 11:03:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:45:17AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> You're running into RFC821-mandated behaviour.  lists.ltb-project.org is a
> CNAME for mail.ltb-project.org, so senders *have* to rewrite the recipient
> address.
> 
> So this looks like a misconfiguration at the receiving site.

Thank you for the feedback; that calms me down.

I had suspected the very thing, and yesterday pointed out the CNAME
issue to that administrator.

He did change it yesterday, and I'm waiting for various caches to
refresh.

  [root@away ~]# date; dig @127.0.0.1 lists.ltb-project.org
  Tue May 14 10:57:31 EDT 2019
  
  ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.12 <<>> @127.0.0.1
  lists.ltb-project.org
  ; (1 server found)
  ;; global options:  printcmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25691
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
  
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;lists.ltb-project.org.         IN      A
  
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  lists.ltb-project.org.  1709    IN      A       163.172.47.55
  
  ;; Query time: 0 msec
  ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
  ;; WHEN: Tue May 14 10:57:31 2019
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 55

And now my queue is unclogged:

  2019-05-14 10:59:33.047194500 starting delivery 3030: msg 60832 to remote [email protected]
  2019-05-14 10:59:33.047196500 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
  2019-05-14 10:59:33.849580500 delivery 3030: success:
  _163.172.47.55_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_2.0.0_Ok:_queued_as_8EF56A1722/
  2019-05-14 10:59:33.850843500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
  2019-05-14 10:59:33.850845500 end msg 60832

All better now; thanks!

> Charles
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