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Re: email lacks sender address

From Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: email lacks sender address
Date 2022-04-27 15:40 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 01:42:05PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 27 Apr 2022 at 08:05:46 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> > If I understand correctly, which is always in serious doubt, it is 
> > exim that constructs the Sender: line by combining /etc/mailname and 
> > $LOCALHOST. Is this so?
> 
> No. exim4 uses what is in /etec/mailname as the MAI FROM: (the envelope
> from).

Thanks for the clarification. 

> > These values are present:
> > 
> >   $ nano /etec/mailname
> >   lenin.histomat.net
> 
> lenin.histomat.net appears to be unrouteable. How a remote system would
> deal with that is anyone's guess.

I do not understand. What should /etc/mailname look like? I suspect it 
should simply be histomat.net and wonder how the host name got in 
there. I changed it to the latter value but still get 5.5.1 Protocol 
error from online email tester. Perhaps I need to restart networking.

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email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-24 22:10 +0200
  Re: email lacks sender address Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-24 23:40 +0200
  Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 00:40 +0200
    Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-25 05:40 +0200
      Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 06:40 +0200
        Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-25 17:50 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 18:50 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 19:00 +0200
            Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-25 21:10 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-26 11:20 +0200
            Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-26 15:30 +0200
              Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-26 17:10 +0200
              Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-26 22:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-27 11:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 11:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 14:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-27 14:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-27 18:20 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 23:00 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-27 14:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 15:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 16:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 16:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-27 17:00 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 17:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-27 15:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 17:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-27 17:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-27 18:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 19:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-27 20:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-27 21:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 23:00 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 22:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-28 07:00 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 16:20 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-27 20:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-27 21:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 23:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-27 22:00 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-27 22:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-28 17:00 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-28 19:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-28 19:20 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-29 01:50 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 17:20 +0200
            Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-27 17:30 +0200
      Re: email lacks sender address Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-25 14:10 +0200
        Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 16:20 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-25 16:30 +0200
            Re: email lacks sender address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-25 17:10 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-25 16:40 +0200
      Re: email lacks sender address Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-26 17:20 +0200
        Re: email lacks sender address Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-26 17:40 +0200
  Re: email lacks sender address 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2022-04-25 03:20 +0200
    Re: email lacks sender address Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2022-04-25 03:50 +0200
      Re: email lacks sender address 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2022-04-25 06:50 +0200
    Re: email lacks sender address Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-04-25 05:40 +0200
      Re: email lacks sender address 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2022-04-25 07:00 +0200
      Re: email lacks sender address Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-04-25 14:50 +0200
        Re: email lacks sender address 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2022-04-26 02:50 +0200
          Re: email lacks sender address Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-04-26 18:10 +0200
            Re: email lacks sender address Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul@doraji.xyz>  - 2022-04-27 03:10 +0200
              Re: email lacks sender address Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul@doraji.xyz>  - 2022-04-27 03:20 +0200
              Re: email lacks sender address Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 17:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul@doraji.xyz>  - 2022-04-27 20:40 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED) Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2022-05-08 18:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-08 19:10 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-09 02:50 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-09 03:30 +0200
                Re: email lacks sender address (SOLVED) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-09 04:40 +0200

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