Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[Sandy Drobic <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sandy Drobic wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Monday April 6 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Aha, so the remote email system doesn't accept email from made up
> > > domains. The bounce goes through because it is sent from an empty
> > > address <>, so no domain check there.
> > >
> > > Looks like you may have to give your mail server a proper domain
> > > name, to get past the security checks at sonic.com
> > Can I get the primary outgoing mail to use the empty domain the way the 
> > bounces do? I see these FROM_HEADER and POSTFIX_MASQUERADE_DOMAIN 
> > parameters whose descriptions suggest vaguely that this could be done.
>
> The best way to do this is to configure the system correctly, then mail won't
> be lost. If you use the empty address as the sender address then mail will be
> lost if it can't be delivered.
>
> You said, that the bounce was getting through, so why don't you use that
> address as the sender address?

Bleah! That was supposed to be the recipient address, of course.

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Sandy

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