On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:28:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > If I understand correctly, which is always in serious doubt, it is > > exim that constructs the Sender: line by combining /etc/mailname and > > $LOCALHOST. Is this so? > > > > These values are present: > > > > $ nano /etec/mailname > > lenin.histomat.net > > Obvious typo. This means you are not pasting results directly from a > terminal into an email. Instead, you're re-typing them, and making > tons of errors in the process. That makes it super hard to know what > is actually real.
I apologize for the errors. I had just arisen and not yet had my coffe. Also as I approach 90 I make more typos. My eyesight is not so sharp and my fingerwork don't behave as well. > > However I'm not clear whether the field is empthy or that what us > > in it field is not owned by me. I have popcorn installed, and it has > > popcon, not popcorn. > > > root send a priodidic message. The mail server does not recognize > > the r...@histomats.net address. It sends me this message: > > *Which* mail server? Who is "it"? A company named Omnis provides me with an email account. I presume it fumctions as a mail server and does my own machine. The error message below came from the former. I simply pasted it. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more > > of > its > > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > > > sur...@popcon.devuan.org > > host mail.guardedhost.com [216.239.133.245] > > SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined sending data block: > > 553 5.7.1 <r...@histomat.net>: Sender address rejected: > > not owned by user bro...@historicalmaterialism.info > > > > Reporting-MTA: dns; lenin.histomat.net > So, this message was generated by your own MTA running on your own > computer, after the message was rejected by the receiving MTA. No. This the mesage sent by the receiving MTA, Omnis. > There are many things I do not understand in this error message. For > starters, who or what is "host mail.guardedhost.com [216.239.133.245]" > and what do they have to do with anything? That is the address, less a port number, required by the Omnis server for incoming email messages. > It sounds like something on *your* end. Maybe you've configured your > MTA to use a smarthost, Yes, I did. In exim4 confguration I selected "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail". I assume the Omnis mail server accepts mail using the SMTP protocol. > and mail.guardedhost.com is your smarthost? No, that is recipient address provided by Omnis less a port number. I send outgoing email to it. > And if so, it's refusing to relay mail from you as long as you claim > to be r...@histomat.net instead of bro...@historicalmaterialism.info > or something. Yes, so it appears. However, popcon has always sent periodic mail presumably from root without this problem. > Also, you appear not to be using Debian, so... all bets are off. Don't my headers show that I'm using Devuan? Devuan is simply Debian without systemd.
