V2.0.6 email problems

I’ve reposted this as I sent it with the wrong subject last time, and also
updated it.

Hi there,

Things are going quite well, but have come up with a couple of mail
related
problems.

Correspondence Address

We have modified our Queue configurations so that our emails come from
the
primary domain as opposed to the server (ie instead of coming from
support@linuxdev.foreshore.net thy come from support@foreshore.net

All works great in this case, however we have some other queues that we
want
to change the correspondence address so that they instead of coming from
say
test@linuxdev.foreshore.net we want them to come from
test@rt.foreshore.net
(rt.foreshore.net is a CNAME for linuxdev.foreshore.net).

When we make this change to the queue configuration, the email always
comes
from test@linuxdev.foreshore.net

It appears to be related to the CNAME - if I set the correspondence address
to something else such as test@derek.foreshore.net it appears to work. Could
this be a sendmail problem?To: Field a bit strange

When we used to send an email to support@foreshore.net the To: field
used to
say:
To: support@foreshore.net

After the upgrade it now says:
To: “‘support@foreshore.net’” support@foreshore.net

Does anybody have any suggestions about how to resolve either of these
problems?

Regards,

Derek…

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“DF” == Derek Fage derek.fage@foreshore.net writes:

DF> All works great in this case, however we have some other queues that we
DF> want
DF> to change the correspondence address so that they instead of coming from
DF> say
DF> test@linuxdev.foreshore.net we want them to come from
DF> test@rt.foreshore.net
DF> (rt.foreshore.net is a CNAME for linuxdev.foreshore.net).

DF> When we make this change to the queue configuration, the email always
DF> comes
DF> from test@linuxdev.foreshore.net

This is a function of your mail server. The various SMTP RFC’s
require that the name be canonicalized, which means that your CNAME
won’t survive this translation.

Anyhow, you should just make an MX for your mail address; no need for
CNAME or A records unless you use it for your web server too.