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[SOLVED] Domain of sender address doesnt exist error
Hi Everyone,
I recently decided that I neede all the email coming to root should be forwarded to a different email address so I created a .forward file in the ~ folder and put in the targe email address there. This has worked on other systems I use but on this one I get the following bounce back email:
From: MAILER-DAEMON@Knoppix
To: real-root@Knoppix
Subject: mail failed, sending to address owner
|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
address: mydestination@suramya.com ... failed: fatal error from smtp transport:
553 5.1.8 <real-root@Knoppix>... Domain of sender address real-root@Knoppix
does not exist
|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
The hostname command returns the correct hostname as seen below:
root@StarKnight:/etc# hostname
StarKnight.Suramya.com
Any idea where I should change the hostname to allow me to send emails? I have set the correct domain in the pine config file but that didn't help.
I have a hdd install of knoppix updated to the latest testing/unstable via apt-get.
Thanks for the help.
- Suramya
Last edited by Suramya; 11-08-2004 at 07:07 PM.
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Host names are defined in /etc/hosts. You should probably have two lines reading:
127.0.0.1 .localhost
127.0.0.2 .StarKnight.Suramya.com
If those are OK, check the config files for your email prog. There should be an option in there naming the user who is to receive mail instead of root.
If it ain't broke, TWEAK IT
Registered Linux user # 170078
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Thanks for the reponse.
Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I got busy at work.
I fixed the problem. The problem was that knoppix uses smail as the default MTA instead of sendmail and smail was pulling in the host infomation from /etc/smail/config.
Once I changed the hostname in the file, it all started working perfectly.
Thanks for the time and effort
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My Website: http://www.suramya.com
My Blog: http://www.suramya.com/blog
Registered Linux User #: 309391
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