Topic: Change the root email domain to something besides <root@myserver.local>

[meanpenguin]

1.  I have a server is ServerOnly mode and the domain is myserver.local

2. Used the server-manager panel and forwarded the email for the "admin" account to an external email address...
 
3. I am getting rejection messages since the "From" email address cannot be validated.

For example from the "Yum updates" email.

From: root@myserver.local
To: admin-yum@myserver.local
Subject: Updates available for server1


4.  This is the exact same problem I am having but a solution is not obvious...
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,43618.msg208138.html#msg208138


Question:  Any way to set the domain for the From field of system generated emails?
 

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at myserver.local.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<dave@(valid domain).com>:
69.162.127.114 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550-Verification failed for <root@myserver.local>
550-The mail server could not deliver mail to root@myserver.local. The account or domain may not exist, they may be blacklisted, or missing the proper dns entries.
550 Sender verify failed
Giving up on 69.162.127.114.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <root@myserver.local>
Received: (qmail 25034 invoked by uid 101); 29 Jun 2010 11:08:35 -0000
Delivered-To: admin-yum@qvl-backup.myserver.local
Received: (qmail 25030 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2010 11:08:34 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-admin-yum@myserver.local
Received: (qmail 25027 invoked by uid 0); 29 Jun 2010 11:08:33 -0000
Date: 29 Jun 2010 11:08:33 -0000
Message-ID: <20100629110833.25024.qmail@myserver.local>
From: root@myserver.local
To: admin-yum@myserver.local
Subject: Updates available for qvl-backup

===
=== yum reports available updates:
===

dstat.noarch 0.7.2-1.el4.rf smeos
e-smith-backup.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-base.i386 5.0.0-13.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-mysql.noarch 2.0.0-4.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-portforwarding.noarch 2.0.0-3.el4.sme smeos
mtr.i386 2:0.79-1.el4.rf smeos
perl-DBI.i386 1.611-1.el4.rf smeos
smeserver-clamav.noarch 2.0.0-12.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-bg.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-da.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-de.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-el.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-es.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-et.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-fr.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-hu.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-id.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-it.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-ja.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-nb.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-nl.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-pl.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-pt.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-pt_BR.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-ro.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-ru.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-sl.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-sv.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-th.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-tr.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-locale-zh_CN.noarch 2.0.0-30.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-qpsmtpd.noarch 2.0.0-6.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-release.noarch 26:7.5.1-1.el4.sme smeos

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at myserver.local.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<dave@(valid domain).com>:
69.162.127.114 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550-Verification failed for <root@myserver.local>
550-The mail server could not deliver mail to root@myserver.local. The account or domain may not exist, they may be blacklisted, or missing the proper dns entries.
550 Sender verify failed
Giving up on 69.162.127.114.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <root@myserver.local>
Received: (qmail 7539 invoked by uid 101); 27 Jun 2010 07:37:34 -0000
Delivered-To: admin@qvl-file.myserver.local
Received: (qmail 7535 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2010 07:37:33 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-admin@myserver.local
Received: (qmail 7532 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jun 2010 07:37:33 -0000
Date: 27 Jun 2010 07:37:33 -0000
Message-ID: <20100627073733.7531.qmail@myserver.local>
From: root@myserver.local
To: admin@myserver.local
Subject: [qvl-file.myserver.local] Clam Antivirus Scan Results - Sun Jun 27 00:37:33 2010


----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 802920
Engine version: 0.96.1
Scanned directories: 3712
Scanned files: 21096
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 2396.36 MB
Data read: 1865.43 MB (ratio 1.28:1)
Time: 811.116 sec (13 m 31 s)

[CharlieBrady]

Question:  Any way to set the domain for the From field of system generated emails?

Configure a valid domain via option 2 of the admin console menu.

[Catton]

I think this fits here

.Local vs. .com


I originally setup my sme7 with .com as our external hosted website is ourcompany.com.
We moved our website to a sqaurespace.com site and no longer have a fixed IP.
Previously I made www.ourcompany.com resolve to our fixed IP.
To be able to access ourcompany.com from inside our network, I changed the Primary domain to ourcompany.local and created a virtual domain ourcompany.com resolved to internet DNS.
That fixed the website access issues but now horde email shows user@ourcompany.local in the from field so an outside reply fails because our MX is mail.ourcompany.com.
This is not a problem for an email client like outlook but many users access email through webmail/horde.

So how to get horde to display the .com domain instead of the .local and make that the default Domain for horde??

I was thinking there must be a template that could be modified.
This seems like a common scenario
Thanks in advance