Re: mail confusion

From: Tim (ignored_mailbox_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 10/30/05

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    To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>, jaymo@mail.bokler.com
    Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:09:02 +1030
    
    

    On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:31 -0600, Jay Moore wrote:
    > I'm using smartd to monitor my HD, and want it to send an email message
    > to another address if an error occirs. I've specified the non-local
    > recipient in smartd.conf correctly. Problem is that when mail sends the
    > message, it sends it as being from "root@localhost.localdomain" - which
    > of course is rejected as invalid at the receiving host.
    >
    > How do I get mail to use my *real* address?

    I think you'll have to configure your sendmail (or equivalent) to
    masquerade outgoing mail as being from a specific domain (a real one
    that you own). It'd still come from root, but at a real domain that'd
    pass through most mail systems.

    If you have your own domain, and your LAN makes use of it, why not
    configure your LAN to use it as your domain name? Then all local mail
    would work.

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