On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:13:22PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:41:49PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>
> > OK, what I want to do is as follows:-
> >
> > I have several headless machines which need to be able to send error
> > and other messages to me ch...@isbd.co.uk.
>
> Directly to that address, or indirectly by sending mail to various local
> accounts that alias to this address? If the latter, and $myorigin is
> listed in $mydestination, then alias these various accounts to the
> desired recipient address.
>
I don't mind how it gets there. :-) However the case in question is
a headless virtual server isbd.uk which is run by Gandi Internet in
France. I want the messages from there to get to my main E-Mail
address which is ch...@isbd.co.uk hosted on an entirely different
hosting service in the UK.
>
> > Looking at what you say above I see the following (on one of the
> > existing systems in the LAN behind zbmc.eu) :-
> >
> > chris$ postconf -d myorigin
> > myorigin = $myhostname
>
> Now you're reporting built-in default values ("-d" option of
> "postconf"). That's not useful. I was specifically telling what the
> *default* value is. If you have a non-default value you can report
> it via "postconf -n".
>
> > chris$ hostname -f
> > t470.zbmc.eu
>
> This is irrelevant.
>
> > chris$ hostname
> > t470
>
> This shows a non-FQDN hostname.
>
Which seems to be how just about every system configures itself.
It's all very well saying that the 'hostname' should include the
domain name but in the real world nothing ever seems to be actually
like that.
If (and it's a big if) I configure the hostname to be a FQDN how do I
then get mail sent to 'chris' out of isbd.uk to ch...@isbd.co.uk?
--
Chris Green
