Re: email lacks sender address
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:28:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > If I understand correctly, which is always in serious doubt, it is
> > exim that constructs the Sender: line by combining /etc/mailname and
> > $LOCALHOST. Is this so?
> >
> > These values are present:
> >
> > $ nano /etec/mailname
> > lenin.histomat.net
>
> Obvious typo. This means you are not pasting results directly from a
> terminal into an email. Instead, you're re-typing them, and making
> tons of errors in the process. That makes it super hard to know what
> is actually real.
I apologize for the errors. I had just arisen and not yet had my
coffe. Also as I approach 90 I make more typos. My eyesight is not so
sharp and my fingerwork don't behave as well.
> > However I'm not clear whether the field is empthy or that what us
> > in it field is not owned by me. I have popcorn installed, and it has
>
> popcon, not popcorn.
>
> > root send a priodidic message. The mail server does not recognize
> > the root@histomats.net address. It sends me this message:
>
> *Which* mail server? Who is "it"?
A company named Omnis provides me with an email account. I presume it
fumctions as a mail server and does my own machine. The error message
below came from the former. I simply pasted it.
> > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more
> > of > its
> > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> >
> > survey@popcon.devuan.org
> > host mail.guardedhost.com [216.239.133.245]
> > SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined sending data block:
> > 553 5.7.1 <root@histomat.net>: Sender address rejected:
> > not owned by user brownh@historicalmaterialism.info
> >
> > Reporting-MTA: dns; lenin.histomat.net
> So, this message was generated by your own MTA running on your own
> computer, after the message was rejected by the receiving MTA.
No. This the mesage sent by the receiving MTA, Omnis.
> There are many things I do not understand in this error message. For
> starters, who or what is "host mail.guardedhost.com [216.239.133.245]"
> and what do they have to do with anything?
That is the address, less a port number, required by the Omnis server
for incoming email messages.
> It sounds like something on *your* end. Maybe you've configured your
> MTA to use a smarthost,
Yes, I did. In exim4 confguration I selected "mail sent by smarthost;
received via SMTP or fetchmail". I assume the Omnis mail server
accepts mail using the SMTP protocol.
> and mail.guardedhost.com is your smarthost?
No, that is recipient address provided by Omnis less a port
number. I send outgoing email to it.
> And if so, it's refusing to relay mail from you as long as you claim
> to be root@histomat.net instead of brownh@historicalmaterialism.info
> or something.
Yes, so it appears. However, popcon has always sent periodic mail
presumably from root without this problem.
> Also, you appear not to be using Debian, so... all bets are off.
Don't my headers show that I'm using Devuan? Devuan is simply Debian
without systemd.
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