On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:03:29 -0600. Jay Moore waffled thusly: > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 04:44 -0500, Ted Kaczmarek wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:31 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: <snip> > > edit > > /etc/aliases > > > > on the bottom of the file their is typically an example for roots mail > > going to marc. Uncomment that line, substitute your local account name > > or ISP account name for that. > > > > run > > newaliases > > > > run logwatch > > > > If you have any issues after this check your log files, but this should > > do the trick in most cases. > > I don't think that's the problem... changing that line would cause all > of root's mail to go to another destination - that's not the problem. > I'm trying to send a message from this host (aria.bokler.com) to my > "real" email account on a different host. > > The problem is that the from: address "mail" is using is bogus: > "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" Problem is that I don't know *where* mail > is getting this address. Following is the error message: > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <jaymo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > (reason: 553 5.1.8 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Domain of sender > address > root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx does not exist) > <jaymo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > (reason: 501 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Sender domain must > exist) > The remote server is well behaved. Good. Change the references in /etc/smartd.conf accordingly: eg. /dev/hda -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /dev/hdc -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx becomes /dev/hda -H -m me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # My email address goes here. /dev/hdc -H -m me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # and here See smartd(8) Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Bother" said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh!"
