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From: Knute Johnson <knute2024@585ranch.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Forwarding problem with aliases
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 14:09:01 -0500
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I've got a sendmail server running that needs to forward a couple of 
addresses to other destinations.  I've set these up in aliases.  Most of 
these work but one recipient has an earthlink account and it rejects the 
forwarded message if the sender is not local to the sendmail server. 
The error message in the returned mail says "The sender's address is 
rejected for policy reasons."  Kind of cryptic.  The end user 
whitelisted the server's domain but I don't think that is where the 
issue is.  I think it is because the sender could be from anywhere and 
that doesn't match the domain of our sendmail server.  But that is just 
a guess.  If I send mail from an account on the server to the one of the 
forwarding aliases, it forwards to the earthlink account just fine.

Anybody know anything about earthlink?  Any other ideas?

Thanks,


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Knute Johnson