I am not a forged sender

Paul Douglas Franklin kolab at paulfranklin.org
Wed May 28 16:34:57 CEST 2008



Alain Spineux wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Paul Douglas Franklin of Union Gospel
> Mission <pdf at yugm.org> wrote:
>   
>> Well, I got Kolab up, having saved my data from the old Kolab
>> installation, installed a new Kolab, and restored to the new.  I then
>> went to my desktop machine to test it.  I loaded Thunderbird.  All my
>> emails and folders were there.  My next test was an e-mail to myself.
>> It was rejected because Kolab did not recognize me as a valid sender.
>> The apologetic message is below:
>> *****************
>> This is the mail system at host kolab.yugm.org.
>>
>> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
>> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>>
>> For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
>>
>> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
>> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>>
>>                   The mail system
>>
>> <pdf6161 at yugm.org>: permission denied. Command output: Invalid From: header.
>>    Paul Douglas Franklin <pdf at yugm.org> looks like a forged sender
>> *************************
>> So I'm back on the old system.
>> What should be my next step?
>>     
>
> Hi
>
> Kolab deny a user to send and email with the identity of someone else.
> This is to avoid  "a.simple.user at yourdomain.com" to send an email as
> "your.boss at youdomain.com".
> This means that in your account settting your email address must match
> your credential .
> Here I see 2 different addresses : pdf6161 and pdf ???
>
> Regards
>
>   
The two addresses are different.  One is the sender (pdf at yugm.org), the 
other the recipient (pdf6161 at yugm.org).   I believed I had all the 
settings transferred, but clearly something went awry.  On the old 
system, I can send just fine.
--Paul

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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759




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