>>Cameron Camp wrote: >> I have monitoring applications on boxes on the same subnet as a box I >> want to use for mailing list notification using Postfix/mailman to >> notify several users. An example is some box throwing an snmp trap, >> where a notification would try to send to >> notification_l...@example.com so several people would know. Right now >> that e-mail would be seen to e coming from >> r...@the_monitor_node_box_name, which won't deliver. What >> are best practices for this? I would only ever have about 15 boxes >> reporting. Sorry if this has been already covered. >Each box that has mail services should at least have an alias that maps >root to a deliverable address. So typically in your /etc/aliases file, >you'd have a line like:
>root: ad...@domain.com >Then use that admin address for your snmp processes. >-- >Daniel I did that, and now I get a message from the mailserver: <ad...@domain.com> (expanded from <r...@localhost>): host mail.domain.com[1.2.3.4] said: 504 5.5.2 <nob...@localhost>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address (in reply to RCPT TO command) how would I fix that? --- thx, Cam