On 2021-01-28, Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote: > Hello, > > tetrahe...@danwin1210.me (tetrahe...@danwin1210.me), 2021.01.28 (Thu) 16:00 > (CET): >> I'm trying to set up my system so I can use 'sendbug' to send in a bug >> report for a kernel panic, and a number of issues have cropped up. >> >> 1. My mail provider won't let me send email from <u...@myhost.foo> but only >> from <my_lap...@domain.com>. Therefore I tried adding to ~/.mailrc: >> set from "my_lap...@domain.com" >> Unfortunately, this didn't fix the issue, and /var/log/maillog is still >> showing "Sender address rejected" messages. >> According to the mail manpage 'from' is a binary option, but this makes no >> sense to me, where does one set the default from address? > > I have nothing to say on mail(1) interactive usage :-) and got confused > reading the man page, just as you.
Looks like when "from" was added, the text about binary options at the top of the list was missed. > You could use "sendbug -P > sendbug.out" to get your report in a file > and send that from a different host. Or edit the file and > > $ cat sendbug.out | mail -s "my bug report" -r my_lap...@domain.com \ > -c my_lap...@domain.com b...@openbsd.org unless you do this, sendbug doesn't use mail(1), it uses /usr/sbin/sendmail directly.
