Re: root delivery for monitoring services
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
Re: root delivery for monitoring services
On 5-Mar-2009, at 11:03, Cameron Camp wrote: 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) Is domain.com your attempt to obfuscate the real domain? If so, use example.com or example.org or domain.tld instead of using someone else's domain. ESPECIALLY when the problem is related to the domain name! -- Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
Re: root delivery for monitoring services
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 be 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. -- Best, Cam 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
