Re: popcon addressing on a recent squeeze install
Am Samstag 07 Mai 2011, 19:05:24 schrieb Paul E Condon:
> I recently did a complete reinstall of Squeeze and said yes to the
> question about popcon. Today I get an email from saying that it
> can't deliver email from root@big.lan.gnu, which the host name
> internal to by home lan. I think that the correct way to handle
> this is to have email to root forwarded to me, but I can't remember
> (and can't find instructions for) how to do this. Please help with
> a reminder.
As far as I can see, the problem isn't that mail to root on your local
machine can't be delivered, but that popcon tries to send an email to
the internet using root@big.lan.gnu as the sender address. This mail
can't be sent to the popcon team at Debian because the domain
"big.lan.gnu" doesn't exist on the internet, hence the sender adress is
invalid, and your ISP's relay server rejects this mail.
The solution is to make your local exim4 to rewrite both the local part
and the domain part of the sender address.
Jens
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