Re: Sendmail reporting Popularity-Contest sent to Debian.org being rejected

[Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com>]

Hello Colin,

Thank You! I will try to figure out how to give root a real e-email address 
for sendmail.

Thanks Again,

Jimmy Richards


On Sunday 01 April 2001 07:42, Colin Watson wrote:
> Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com> wrote:
> >Can anyone help tell me whats wrong with the attempted send of the
> >popularity-contest mailing for my system isn't working? In case you're
> >curious....
> >
> >ii  popularity-contest    1.0-1
> >ii  sendmail                 8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta5-5
> >
> >Here is the error I being reported by sendmail.....
>
> [...]
>
> >   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> >apenwarr-survey@debian.org
> >    (reason: 550 rejected: cannot route to sender <root@P3V4X>)
>
> Just as it says. Get your system to send out root mail with a real
> e-mail address. I know how to do that for exim, but not for sendmail;
> sorry.
>
> Cheers,