wrong return email address

[Hakselnorth]

When an reseller or a user uses a script or frontpage extentions to send form information to himself the mail gets as a returnaddress [email protected] .
He should get [email protected] as a senders address.

How is it possible that the main domainname (servername) gets involved?
It looks like sendmail changes the returnmailaddress.

how can I correct this???

anybody please?????

 

[nobaloney]

DirectAdmin doesn't use sendmail. It uses exim.

Your script must be configured to set the return address.

Jeff

 

[Hakselnorth]

Thank you for your reply Jeff,
It answers a lot of my questions, but does not solve our problem. The same problem occurs while using Exim.
I am fairly new to DA and this is a problem that comes to light after my users start and have tasted DA
Perhaps is has to do with a change in servername after DA was installed. I changed it from: server.domainname.nl to: domainname.nl
All else seems to work alright .

All users cannot log into their pop3 account while they can login to their ftp account. They can use squirrelmail but if they compose and send a mail out it gets as returnaddress [email protected].
This should be [email protected]

How or where can i correct this??

 

[Hakselnorth]

it looks like there is something wrong with the the mx records. if i check the email of the user on dnsstuff.com i come out at the wrong ip for the mail.userdomain.ext.
I will check that out first and write my findings here.

 

[Hakselnorth]

Everything to do with dns is solved. severname back to server.maindomainname.nl. All users email now correct ecept for one. This users mail sent to the user from the webmail or frontpagescript still has the maindomainname.nl as the reply address instead of his owndomainname.nl
I have followed up the standard setup for Exim and connot find any references to maindomain.nl in the user his config files.

 

[nobaloney]

Do you mean if the user or reseller sends email through webmail from his/her main username?

If so, then that's because these are linux system users and their domain is by default the domain name on the server.

In squirrelmail the user can change this in "Options | Pesonal Information".

In UebiMiau you should be able to change it under User Preferences.

In your own programs you'll have to change it in your own programming.

Jeff

 

[Hakselnorth]

That was indeed the problem. I, (as administrator) had no problem with my e-mail at all.
I have not checked how a form generated by a frontpage extentions script displays its reply email for the customer, I have little feeling with frontpage extentions.
The user/domain was made while the server had the wrong domain name. That could have caused it.
I will let you know here. Thanks Jeff much appreciated