I'm not sure what Google's requirements are to send email.  Perhaps a bit 
out of scope for this discussion group?

I can send non-fully qualified emails on servers I own! :) 

Can you change it to send as yourself to yourself on gmail.com ???  seems 
like an easy enough test.



On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:56:29 PM UTC-8, finid wrote:

> The <email_from> address is the generic one set by OSSEC (the server 
> does not have a FQDN). 
>
> Just to clarify some points about the email credentials: 
>
> 1. If the <email_to> address is, for example, myname@gmail, and the 
> <smtp_server> points to a Google SMTP server, can I have the 
> <email_from> address be any arbitrary email address? 
>
> 2. Must the <email_from> address have to be a valid address? 
>
> TIA 
>
>
> -- 
> finid 
>
>
>
> On 2014-12-16 12:46, Brent Morris wrote: 
> > what's your <email_from></email_from> address? It should be fully 
> > qualified if you're sending to gmail and the like... 
> > 
> > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:23:16 AM UTC-8, finid wrote: 
> > 
> >> In further troubleshooting email issues I have with a couple of 
> >> servers 
> >> not being able to send emails to certain email providers, I have 
> >> found 
> >> that OSSEC is actually sending emails, but the other end is 
> >> rejecting 
> >> them. 
> >> 
> >> So after installing a local SMTP app for OSSEC to send emails, any 
> >> emails destined to Fastmail and Google are rejected with this type 
> >> of 
> >> message: 
> >> 
> >> < snip > 
> >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address 
> >> (in reply to RCPT TO command) 
> >> < /snip > 
> >> 
> >> Obviously some email providers are not that picky, but is there a 
> >> way to 
> >> bypass this without actually setting up a FQDM? 
> >> 
> >> TIA, 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> finid 
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