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piggie
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 01 Jan 2003
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:26 am Post subject: Sendmail Problem |
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Hi all.
I'm just trying to set up sendmail so that cgi forms from my apache server can send mail to external addresses.
Running sendmail though, gives me an error I have been tearing my hair out trying to fix:
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sendmail -oi -t
To: an.address@server.com
From: test@test.com
Subject: Test
test test
test test
sendmail: 553 malformed address: <root@_HOSTNAME_>
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Where is sendmail picking up this "root@_HOSTNAME_>" address from?
I have checked aliases, sendmail config etc.
I'm sure _HOSTNAME_ should be picking up the hostname from the server, but it doesnt appear to be.
typing hostname returns the right hostname. /etc/hostname contains the right hostname.
Any ideas?
I'm only using sendmail because thats what I have used in the past.
Any suggestions for another MTA to use is fine. I'm not using this as an incoming server - nor an outgoing server for anything other than daemons on the local host.
However, before I removed ssmptp and installed Sendmail, it was doing the same thing - so this is not a sendmail specific issue unless ssmtp is using sendmail somehow:
Sep 5 11:14:11 proxy2 sSMTP[12960]: 553 malformed address: <root@_HOSTNAME_>
Sep 5 11:14:47 proxy2 sSMTP[12961]: 553 malformed address: <root@_HOSTNAME_> |
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thunder
Retired Dev
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Posts: 164
Location: Wroclaw, PL
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 6:39 am Post subject: |
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change sendmail to postfix  it's my advice
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bruzzler
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Joined: 08 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| the hostname is specified in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and defaults to _HOSTNAME_ ... |
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robfantini
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
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Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is this. [using postfix on the server].
when /etc/hostname is set to just the 1-st word of a fully-qualified hostname [like "fbc64" ] then an error message like this occurs:
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<19>Nov 8 12:39:30 fbc64 sSMTP[14014]: RCPT TO:<rob@xyz.com> (504
<fbc64>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname)
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So the fully-qualified hostname needs to be set in
/etc/hostname or or in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf .
The question I have is this: is there anything wrong with putting the fully-qualified hostname in /etc/hostname ?
Gentoo install docs [that i remember] say to just use the 1-st part of the hostname there. |
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smutt
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Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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How about just using stupid old mail. Something like:
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echo "test test" |mail -s "Subject test" address@example.com
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