I seem to have problems with sendmail.

I get an e-mail back

From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
To: nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com

Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:24:58 -0700
from nobody@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"jack" <jack@OutsideDomainripnet.com>
(reason: 550 5.1.8 <nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com> Invalid address)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx1.OutsideDomain.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com> SIZE=432
<<< 550 5.1.8 <nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com> Invalid address
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

What could cause this?

Why is sendmail sending system mail with the "nobody" account?

Could or should account "nobody" be disabled or deleted?

Please reply.

ANy one with any ideas on this thread!

Help Help

How can you control mail from Using the nobody account when sending system emails.?

kevinm2

Had a dig around the net and found this Link

It's a vBulletin discussion board which probably does'nt relate to you but the problem is the same, seems to stem from the fact that Apache runs as user nobody

Do you have an alias set up for nobody in /etc/mail/aliases ? like this

Whether your Apache is running as user nobody I can't say

Don't suppose you have a forum on your web server ?

Best I can find at the moment

Pete

I had it and I commented out.

And I have also changed my user and group name of httpd.conf to apache.

kevinm2

How much of your original post did you edit, you obviously removed your domain

Is <jack@OutsideDomainripnet.com> the way you recieved it

Pete

Thanks for the reply again Pete -

I miss typed on the first post.
"jack" <jack@OutsideDomainripnet.com>

What I get is this:
"jack" <jack@OutsideDomain.com>

That was the question? Correct?
----------------------------------------------------

From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
To: nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com

Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:24:58 -0700
from nobody@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"jack" <jack@OutsideDomain.com>
(reason: 550 5.1.8 <nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com> Invalid address)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx1.OutsideDomain.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com> SIZE=432
<<< 550 5.1.8 <nobody@MyServer.MyDomain.com> Invalid address
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

I forgot to mention this. This happens when i'am sending email throught php shopping cart that our customer is using.

It seems that when system mail is being sent out, it uses whatever name that apache's httpd.conf uses for user and group to send the mail out!

kevinm2

It's obviously a problem with Apache and php which is way over my head

Sorry I can't be more help

Pete

Pete - Thanks anyway

kevinm2

Take a look at these options for sendmail.mc

FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')dnl

Apparently "genericstable" can rewrite a user name on outgoing mail

Doing some research now will test on my sendmail server see if it works

Pete

Pete I added

FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')dnl

and also update my genericstable to have

nobody info@MyDomain.com

But it still didnot work.


Talking to the script people they think, this is a problem with php and sendmail. They are not communicating properly withe achother. So I have to research that.

I would appreciate any feed back. Thanks