On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:31:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > You need to look¹ at exim's logs (/var/log/exim4/mainlog, > /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 and /var/log/exim4/mainlog.*.gz) > to see what it's trying to send. There should be a line > where mutt hands your email to exim > > DATE TIME UNIQUESTRING <= your-from-address U=username … message-ID > > the string of interest ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ > > That should be followed by: > > DATE TIME SAMESTRING => to-address A=this B=that …
2022-04-24 10:44:02 1nidSz-00068k-QP rejected from <> U=Debian-exim: message to> Envelope-from: <> Envelope-to: <r...@histomat.net> I infer that exim is not being given the envelop address of the sender. > > what does "test-server.example.net" refer to? Sorry for my ignorance. > > Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com Thanks David, but that was not my question. What test server is being takled about? I guess that the mail server is my own machine and so try: $ swaks --to <an email address> ri...@yahoo.com --from hai...@histomat.net ... <- 250 STARTTLS -> MAIL FROM:<hai...@histomat.net> <** 553 5.7.2 [TSS09] All messages from 32.210.108.191 will be permanently deferred; Retrying will NOT succeed. See https://postmaster.yahooinc.com/error-codes -> QUIT *** Remote host closed connection unexpectedly. Incidentally, I get $ hostname -A lenin-16.home that's strange. Should be lenin.histomat.net