Re: [gentoo-user] A little OT; ssmtp: Is this correct?

[Michael Higgins <linux@evolone.org>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:26:24 -0500
Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:

> mailhub=baby.espersunited.com
> # Where will the mail seem to come from?
> rewriteDomain=root@camille.espersunited.com
> 
> # The full hostname
> 
> # Gentoo bug #47562
> # Commenting the following line will force ssmtp to figure
> # out the hostname itself.
> 
> # hostname=_HOSTNAME_
> 
> 
> This has worked fine for about a week until yesterday when I rebooted.

Is your hostname properly configured on the machine you rebooted?

> Now I'm seeing these in my log file:
> 
> Jul 17 00:00:46 camille sSMTP[18912]: Set
> RewriteDomain="root@camille.espersunited.com" is invalid

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=ssmtp+RewriteDomain+%22is+invalid%22

First hit:

    Comment by Alessandro Doro (adoroo) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 15:41 GMT-4
Dawid, your configuration is wrong.
rewriteDomain should only contain the domain name, without the username part.

Which makes some sense, given the name of the config option.

> But the mail that camille tries to send ends up in dead.letter.
> What's going on here?

If it ends up in dead.letter, it seems it's probably *your own* mail server rejecting it..?? Maybe have a look at "the exim server on baby.espersunited.com" to see why?

Anyway, you probably figured this out already.

Cheers,

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