[aklug] Re: Roots mail isn't working

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Arthur Corliss
<acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Damien Hull wrote:
>
> For some strange reason the final recipient is root@example.com.
>>
>> The final recipient should be the email address I added to aliases. I
>> can't figure out why the final recipient is root@example.com.
>>
>
> FYI: aliases allow you to change the final recipient of the e-mail, but it
> does not translate the envelope of the mail. You should probably whitelist
> mail going to root@example.com in your gmail account to keep it out of
> your
> spam folder.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
>

Gotta stop sending email from my phone. Anyway, I figured out what the
problem was. Turns out postfix wasn't configured for "hostname". Any email
sent to root would end up going to "root@hostname".

The strange part that had me confused was that post fix would send back an
error message. That's the message that would be sent back to root, which was
then forwarded to my Google email. Not sure why the error message made it. I
thought this was a Google error message.

Anyway, all is well in the land of roots mail.

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Received on Tue Oct 26 11:06:52 2010