Re: how do I pass thru incomplete destination email addr to relayhost for 'To' rewrite?

2020-08-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthew Patton wrote: > > Why send mail as user@myhostname, when the named host will never > > ever receive email? > > Because I need to retain FROM what host it originated. If I see an > email from root@domain I have no idea which host it came from. In my mailer I would immediately look at the

Re: how do I pass thru incomplete destination email addr to relayhost for 'To' rewrite?

2020-08-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Patton, Matthew [Contractor]: > > Why send mail as user@myhostname, when the named host will never > > ever receive email? > > Because I need to retain FROM what host it originated. If I see > an email from root@domain I have no idea which host it came from. > The emails are cron scripts and the

Re: how do I pass thru incomplete destination email addr to relayhost for 'To' rewrite?

2020-08-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 01:58:16AM +, Patton, Matthew [Contractor] wrote: > > Why send mail as user@myhostname, when the named host will never > > ever receive email? > > Because I need to retain FROM what host it originated. If I see an email from > root@domain I have no idea which host

RE: how do I pass thru incomplete destination email addr to relayhost for 'To' rewrite?

2020-08-15 Thread Patton, Matthew [Contractor]
> Why send mail as user@myhostname, when the named host will never > ever receive email? Because I need to retain FROM what host it originated. If I see an email from root@domain I have no idea which host it came from. The emails are cron scripts and the like, not user-generated email. If

Re: how do I pass thru incomplete destination email addr to relayhost for 'To' rewrite?

2020-08-15 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > >Patton, Matthew [Contractor]: > > On a regular sending host I have set 'myhostname' (because logical > > hostname differs from the system-level nee AWS autogenerated > > hostname), 'myorigin=$myhostname' (Postfix default) and > > Why send mail as user@myhostname, when the named

Re: how do I pass thru incomplete destination email addr to relayhost for 'To' rewrite?

2020-08-15 Thread Wietse Venema
>Patton, Matthew [Contractor]: > On a regular sending host I have set 'myhostname' (because logical > hostname differs from the system-level nee AWS autogenerated > hostname), 'myorigin=$myhostname' (Postfix default) and Why send mail as user@myhostname, when the named host will never ever