Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday April 6 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-04-06 at 13:21 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Alright, messrs. spoilsport. No hacks today.
> >
> > You know how hard it is to invent good names for things? And now I
> > have to invent a name for my online existence _and_ it has to be
> > available in the DNS system!
>
> ROTFL!  X'-)
>
> I'll be a bit more of a spoilsport. That DNS name needs to have an MX
> field or it will not, or may not, work. Some servers may require that
> it also has rDNS, and some that the rDNS and DNS are matching.
>
>
> My suggestion is simply to change the outgoing mail so that it has:
>
>   From: root <...@xxxxxxxxx>
>   To:   Randall <...@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> but I'm not sure how best to do that. Should be simple.

Remember, the whole point of this exercise was to get system mail 
(originating from rkhunter & secchk, mostly) sent to me on my primary 
system and not to root or another local mailbox on the secondary 
system.


> Part b) is just the same configuration as is needed if you want
> postfix to send mail from <...@xxxxxxxxx> instead of using KMail's
> configuration. If you want to do that I'll tell you how, as it is my
> setup (and then, if you want, you can also tell KMail to use postfix
> instead).

As per above, this mail is not originating from a conventional 
interactive MUA, but rather from a system-level entity (whatever 
exactly that is in an openSUSE 11.1 installation).

The intermediate system (the mail servers of my ISP, Sonic.net) use SMTP 
authentication and I configured that (I think successfully) into the 
YaST's MTA setup module.


> --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.


Randall Schulz
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