On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:22:13PM +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:33:00PM +0100, Erwin van Maanen wrote:
> >Hi Maurice, 
> >
> >I do something similar, but with the root alias straight to my external 
> >adress. 
> I tried three scenarios:
> - external address in /etc/mail/aliases
> - external address in /root/.forward (and no alias for root in
>   /etc/mail/aliases)
> - external addres in /home/maurice/.forward (and maurice in /root/.forward).
> 
> I see no difference, unfortunately.
> 
> >In the receiving mail i get proper from headers from the cron jobs and such: 
> >From: Charlie Root <[email protected]> 
> 
> Is this for cronjobs that send their output through mail(1) ?  In that case,
> I also see a full domain in the From: header.
> But for other cronjobs (like a simple "echo foo" as a test case) that don't
> pipe the output to mail(1), smtpd tries to send the mail with a From header
> without the domain part (only "From: root") and those emails are rejected
> by the SMTP at the receiving end (sendmail).
> 
> >Maybe you could try a double alias: local delivery (if you need it) and
> >directly to the external address, to avoid the forward coming from 
> >"maurice". 
> >Something like: 
> >root: [email protected], maurice 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work for me.
> 
> Maurice
>

Hi,

There's an issue opened about this, it needs to be investigated.
We didn't get too many complaints so it wasn't high priority but
it'll be fixed hopefully not in too long

https://github.com/poolpOrg/OpenSMTPD/issues/174

-- 
Gilles Chehade

https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg

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