On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 19:23 -0400, Joseph Acquisto wrote: > >>> On 10/15/2012 at 3:46 PM, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:02 -0400, Joseph Acquisto wrote: > >> Still can't get GTUBE messages. Am I being dense? Sending messages > >> with the GTUBE "signature", > >> from external sites, don't seem to arrive. I don't see them trapped > >> in my day jobs outgoing > >> queue, etc. > >> > > Is there any sign of these messages in your mail logs? > > > > Its often easier to see what's happening by looking at the logs rather > > than checking if anything is trapped in a queue. > > Not a sign. I use fetchmail to grab mail from an ISP, so I can see > pretty clearly when messages are fetched. > There's not all that much traffic when I am sending these GTUBE > messages. > Two observations:
1) fetchmail is buggy and in a way that can cause it to leave main sitting in your mailbox at the ISP. I gave up on it several years back and replaced it with getmail, which doesn't have these problems. If you use one, you can even use the same MDA you wrote for fetchmail with getmail. 2) With that setup you can punt almost anything out the door and know that it will come back via your ISP and fetchmail/getmail. Simply point a mail client at your ISP's MTA and send mail to yourself with it: the message will go through the ISP's delivery mechanism and back to your local MTA via fetchmail/getmail. You can even forge a GMAIL From: line unless, of course, your ISP has rules that would prevent that, but you can check for that easily enough: send a test message with your usual sender address: it should come back. Try another with a forged GMAIL sender: if you don't see it come back you know that your ISP has a forged sender trap installed. Martin > joe a.
