Re: [vox-tech] quickie postfix config issue
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 06:16:53AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote: > On Sunday 23 July 2006 01:52, Cylar Z wrote: > ... > > The system is able to receive mail normally. It also > > sends it with no problems. HOWEVER, mail sent from the > > system appears to come from > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of from my domain > > name. How can I fix this? > ... > > Postfix, being a Mail Transport Agent, just moves mail around; it > does not create the FROM header. Unless he was talking about what shows up in the trace headers or X-Return-Path or something... then it's the MTA. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] quickie postfix config issue
On Sunday 23 July 2006 01:52, Cylar Z wrote: ... > The system is able to receive mail normally. It also > sends it with no problems. HOWEVER, mail sent from the > system appears to come from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of from my domain > name. How can I fix this? ... Postfix, being a Mail Transport Agent, just moves mail around; it does not create the FROM header. What you are interested in is the host and domain name of the system as returned by gethostname(). This can be system-dependent and it's been a while since I have worked with Red Hat... start with "man hostname" for details. Rod ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] quickie postfix config issue
Hey all, Dumb question, but here goes. My server runs Fedora Core 5 from RedHat. It also uses Postfix as its MTA. The system is able to receive mail normally. It also sends it with no problems. HOWEVER, mail sent from the system appears to come from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of from my domain name. How can I fix this? I checked the settings in postfix's configuration file in /etc/postfix/main.cf and all appears as it should be. Here's the sticky part. I was switching back and forth between using a router in front of the system for security reasons, and having the system provide its own security. (Long story). While it was using the router, I had to switch its networking settings to dynamically assigned IP instead of the usual static, with the router holding the domain name and forwarding incoming requests to the correct port (HTTP 80, SMTP 25, etc). To facilitate this, I modified /etc/hosts so that it reads as follows: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost However, when I took the router out and plugged the system directly back into the network, I modified /etc/hosts to read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 207.xxx.xxx.xxx .com I've deleted the IP and domain info for obvious reasons. What is really odd is that the mail worked fine and messages appeared to come from root@.com, before I tried to install the router. Now I seem to have caused a problem I can't fix. Ideas? Thanks in advance... ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
