On 2021-01-28, Marcus MERIGHI <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > [email protected] ([email protected]), 2021.01.28 (Thu) 16:00 > (CET): >> I'm trying to set up my system so I can use 'sendbug' to send in a bug >> report for a kernel panic, and a number of issues have cropped up. >> >> 1. My mail provider won't let me send email from <[email protected]> but only >> from <[email protected]>. Therefore I tried adding to ~/.mailrc: >> set from "[email protected]" >> Unfortunately, this didn't fix the issue, and /var/log/maillog is still >> showing "Sender address rejected" messages. >> According to the mail manpage 'from' is a binary option, but this makes no >> sense to me, where does one set the default from address? > > I have nothing to say on mail(1) interactive usage :-) and got confused > reading the man page, just as you.
Looks like when "from" was added, the text about binary options at the top of the list was missed. > You could use "sendbug -P > sendbug.out" to get your report in a file > and send that from a different host. Or edit the file and > > $ cat sendbug.out | mail -s "my bug report" -r [email protected] \ > -c [email protected] [email protected] unless you do this, sendbug doesn't use mail(1), it uses /usr/sbin/sendmail directly.
