[Mailman-Users] TO field incorrect (sendmail)

Paul D. Smith pausmith at nortelnetworks.com
Wed Feb 21 21:31:21 CET 2001


I'm using mailman 2.0.1 on a system with sendmail 8.9.3 (I know, I know,
but I just don't have time right now to install exim :-/... this _HAS_
to be working by tomorrow evening, when I go on vacation--I'll look at
it when I get back :).  I'm using 

Everything is working fine, _except_ one thing: when I send mail to the
mailing list, the To: field of the message I get back (as a member of
the list) is incorrect and invalid.

I send mail to "mylist at lists.domain.com", and when I get that message
back it has a To: field like:

  To: mylist at server.east

Now, here's the deal; this system was originally named "server".  It
still has this as /etc/hostname, and it still needs to respond to mail
that way, etc.

It also has a number of aliases, including lists.domain.com.

I'm not sure where the "east" is coming from; the /etc/defaultdomain is
"east" (but that's only used for NIS, right, so that wouldn't matter?),
and the fully-qualified hostname of the server alias is
"server.east.domain.com".

Anyway, the question is why isn't the "To:" field using the
lists.domain.com address?

Who sets the To: field on outgoing (list) mail?  Is it mailman?  I can't
find anywhere in mailman that might be using the "server.east" address.

Or is it sendmail somehow?  Is there anyone who knows enough about
sendmail to point me in the right direction?  I see lots of discussion
of changing the From: address (masquerading), but not setting the "To:"
address ??

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