>>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

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