Postfix and added hostname in sender

Rocker

I recently installed a new Gentoo machine and are now configuring the email section on it.

I installed postfix and tested the installation. I can send emails to myself or any address so that works fine. However... when I send an email, the emailaddres from the sender is displayed as: rutger@svr.svr.cts.homelinux.net. svr is the servername, cts.homelinux.net the domainname (from dyndns.org). So it add's the hostname and the local dns name behind the @ sign.

In /etc/postfix/main.cf is hostname and domainname qualified as follows:
myhostname = svr.cts.homelinux.net
mydomain = cts.homelinux.net
myorigin = $mydomain

I would like a sender email addres like rutger@cts.homelinux.net, what am I doing wrong?

magic919 · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

You are sending email with an incomplete from address. Postfix rewrite does the rest. Configure your email client correctly and you'll be fine.

Rocker · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

But I guess that it will be possible to configure the 'rewrite' action from Postfix so it will add a correct adres?? I prefer setting it right as topmost as possible.... :wink:

Rocker · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

By the way.. it isn't only in the sender... When I want to send an emailmessage from one user to another and do that with only the username postfix add's svr.svr.cts.homelinux.net behind it as well. So I can't send messages between users by their name.

magic919 · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject:

You need to read the rewrite docs.

Rocker · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

Well... i looked over the rewrite manual (http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html), and tried different options, but without luck...

When I send a message and look in the mailq afterwards I see the following error: