[ale] beeping sendmail.cf [it was Muttrc! SOLVED]

[David S. Jackson]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:33PM -0400 David S. Jackson <deepbsd at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Okay, bad form to reply to myself, but here's what I've found so far:
> 
> Watching the maillog during fetching mail, the beeps happen just
> before a "reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address yumi at gaemat.com
> does not resolve" appears.  This appears to be generated from the
> "ruleset=check_mail" function in sendmail.cf.  The rule in
> "check_mail" that appears to be getting tripped is:
> 
> R<TEMP> $*              $#error $@ 4.1.8 $: "451 Domain of sender
> address " $&f " does not resolve"
> 
> Not being a sendmail guru, where should I look next?  What does this
> line in sendmail.cf actually mean?

You guys(et al) aren't going to believe this: it was my .muttrc.  The
default for muttrc now seems to be "set beep=yes", so Mutt beeps on
any error, such as a rejected mail from the "check_mail" function.
The beep goes away whenever mutt is not running or set beep=no is
set.  Heh.  Geez.  

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David S. Jackson                                dsj at dsj.net
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