Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

[Mark H. Weaver]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

> Guillaume Morin writes:
>  > Dans un message du 24 fév à 18:02, Jeff Bailey écrivait :
>  > > I haven't been following this problem lately.  It used to be (under 
>  > > subversions) that it sent the message out as address@hidden, which was 
> not 
>  > > a legit userid.  If emails are failing when coming out as 
>  > > address@hidden, I suspect that you have a different problem.
>  > 
>  > No, mail is coming out as address@hidden Fencepost is the MX
>  > entry for subversions.gnu.org. Fencepost considers that domain as a
>  > local domain thanks to the *.gnu.org entry in /etc/local_main_domains. 
>  > That is why it fails. A quick fix would be to set qualify_domain to
>  > savannah.gnu.org on subversions, but I am afraid it could break things.
>  > Another better fix would be to patch log_accum to set the From field in
>  > the message.
> 
>  Can you tell me if you're sure that would fix the problem for good ? I'm
> willing to do the patch but I'd like to be sure it indeed fixes the problem
> once for all :-) 

I think the proposed fix is not a good idea.  I don't have time at the
moment to think through a proper solution, but for now, please do NOT
make this change.

        Mark