Re: ssmtp apparently generating random email address?

["Jim Drash" <jim dot drash at gmail dot com>]

ssmtp cannot generate some random e-mail addresses.  It does not run
as a daemon.
I would venture to guess it is some mailing list you belong to that
has the problem.  It is not ssmtp



On 5/5/06, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
> I run various jobs from cron and then use :-
>
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp
> to mail the results back to me.
>
> Every few days I get a mail back from some distant mail server compaining
> the destination email address does not exist. The email address however
> is one I don't recognise at all, the email address has however a valid
> domain otherwise they wouldn't bounce back.
>
> I would guess that I am sometimes sending a broken mail header which
> "picks" up some default random. But can anyone suggest where I start
> looking/ what is going wrong?????
>
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