Package: hylafax-server Version: 2:4.3.0-7 Severity: minor emails notifying the submitter of job status appear to be sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This caused the mails to be rejected by my newly careful email setup, as sender verification failed. There is no fax user on the system.
hylafax is installed with the faxmaster account. Perhaps that should be the sender's address? Of course, it would be undesirable for any actual mail (e.g., bounce messages) to go the the faxmaster mailbox. That's a fairly generic issue with system users, though I don't know what the generic solution is. Finally, in a situation that may be more peculiar to my setup, the address appears as my public domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (made up names to slow the spammers). The system is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED], so it seems likely the lookup would fail anyway if b.foo.com were my only system with hylafax. (It's not; the system that the verification spoke to also has the faxmaster user). I think the domain issues are mostly my problem, but they may indicate that it would be good to allow administrators some control over the domain of the return address. I don't know where the return address is set, or if it something that can be changed in the current config files; I suspect it's hard-wired into, e.g., bin/notify. Ignoring the domain issue, I see several possible routes: 1) change the sender to be a real user, i.e., faxmaster. 2) create the user "fax" on installation. 3) leave as is, but document. 4) create a configuration variable that can be set to address of the admin's preference (this assumes there is no such variable now). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hylafax-server depends on: ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy ii gs-esp [gs] 8.15.2.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.50-1.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int ii hylafax-client 2:4.3.0-7 Flexible client/server fax softwar ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-11 GCC support library ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-11 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff-tools 3.8.2-6 TIFF manipulation and conversion t ii libtiff4 3.8.2-6 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor ii sharutils 1:4.2.1-15 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages hylafax-server recommends: ii metamail 2.7-52 implementation of MIME -- debconf information: hylafax-server/configure_note: hylafax-server/attachment: hylafax-server/start_now: true hylafax-server/setup_failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
