Topic: Admin From Address

[Brave Dave]

The default from address for the smeserver for administrative notices is admin@yourdomain.tld

Of course you can change the domain


If the domain is a makeup, mycompany.local then the domain is invalid.

Can I just change this from address with a db variable etc  ?
-- or --
Is the only way to change the servers domain ?

(because mail servers reject the messages because the from is invalid)

[thomasch]

login to SMEserver console as admin, select #2.Configure this server
and change your domain from there.

thomas

[Stefano]

login to SMEserver console as admin, select #2.Configure this server
and change your domain from there.
nge my domain
thomas

this is not, IMO, a good answer.. I wish my internal lan domain something like mydomain.local.. I don't want to change it to something different..

ciao
Stefano

[CharlieBrady]

Can I just change this from address with a db variable etc  ?
-- or --
Is the only way to change the servers domain ?

No, and yes.

[Stefano]

quoting from qmail faq

Controlling the appearance of outgoing messages

Queston: How do I set up user masquerading? I'd like my own From lines to show "The Boss" <boss@af.mil> rather than god@heaven.af.mil.

Answer: Add MAILHOST=af.mil, MAILUSER=boss, and MAILNAME='The Boss' to your environment.
To override From lines supplied by your MUA, add QMAILINJECT=f to your environment.

is this a solution?

tia
ciao
Stefano

[Brave Dave]

Think I'm at this solution

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/var/qmail/control
echo mydesireddomain.tld >/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/var/qmail/control/defaulthost
signal-event email-update

[Marco Hess]

Interesting solution. I found that by using 'defaulthost' to specify the domain, it treats local users (like in commandline: mail admin) as remote users and immediately forwards those without looking at any local user forwarding addresses.

If I use 'defaultdomain' it sees the local users and correctly uses any forwarding addresses. However, I am back at the 'user@localdomain' can not be verified problem. I tried to override various other settings in /var/qmail/control and setting various environments variables (incl. QMAILSHOST) without a lot of success.

What would the qmail configuration be to have local users processed as local users so their forwarding address are used while in the outgoing From line it is also properly specified as coming from the mydisireddomain.tld

[Brave Dave]

This problem doesn't apply to me - there are no local email accounts - I almost want the opposite

but

I'm thinking that (these are untested, but seem logical)
Through the server manager add the same domain
and
leave the dns resolution to the internet

This way;

• I will have local unique name resolution
• The default domain will be recognized

[CharlieBrady]

I wish my internal lan domain something like mydomain.local.. I don't want to change it to something different..

Why do you wish that, and why don't you want to change it to a valid domain?

[Brave Dave]

I'm not sure why nenonano wants it

but
in the case I'm applying it to, I'm sitting inside a school standalone, don't have a lot of control over the naming conventions - it works good to be invalid, because validation is taken from everything else

and
I just want to get the admin error messages

and
the upstream smtp server is enforcing validation of the from email addresses (as well as the to)

[Stefano]

Why do you wish that, and why don't you want to change it to a valid domain?

Hi Charlie..

sometimes some small (2,3 pc) firms don't have a registered domain.. so I give an invalid one, such myfirm.local..

I wish admin mails to be forwarded to my email, but, as the OP said, it's being difficult

that's all..

Ciao
Stefano

[thomasch]

I'd register server to dyndns at least. 

I wish admin mails to be forwarded to my email, but, as the OP said, it's being difficult

Admin mails can be forwarded to external mail, configure it via server-manager->(Colaboration)Users.

thomas

[CharlieBrady]

sometimes some small (2,3 pc) firms don't have a registered domain.. so I give an invalid one, such myfirm.local..

If they don't have a registered domain, they won't receive any email, and shouldn't expect to send any.

As Thomasch says, getting a legitimate domain is trivial.

[Stefano]

@charliebrady
they use some free email account such libero.it, virgilio.it and so on.. I retrieve their mails with fetchmail

their server is registered with dyndns but only to permit me to connect via ssh from everywhere (dynamic ip on theri side)

@thomasch
I know how to forward admin's emails to another address (I'm using SME since 2003)..

the problem is that outgoing mail from them is from "admin@myfirm.local" and the invalid domain is often rejected.

Ciao
Stefano

[Jáder]

THIS IS A NEWBIE ANSWER... JUST A THOUGHT:

Couldn´t you create a sub-domain for your clients (root-accounts-clients.mydomain.com) and use it on all your clients ?

Ou create a subdomain for each one of your clientes (clientX.mydomain.com , clientY.mydomain.com, clientZ.mydomain.com, ...)  and configure each client server with this subdomain ?