PHONE HOME - "Domain name required for sender address &

[William]

Here is the first phone home email, that does not seem to be phoning home, rather, it went to me.

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From: MAIL-SYSTEM
Sent: 23 February 2007 21:28
To: some-scalix-email-address@scalix.com
Subject: PHONEHOME

SCALIX-STATS-START
SystemId=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Premium=21
Standard=1
Server=11.0.1.11
Tomcat=5.5.16
SWA=11.0.1.22
SIS=11.0.1.22
Platform=11.0.1.22
SAC=11.0.1.22
RES=11.0.1.22
Mobile=11.0.1.22
Distribution=RHEL-4
Kernel=2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
Platform=i686
Cpus=4
RAM=2048
Data Size=9833136
Store Size=9197492
SCALIX-STATS-END

from /var/log/maillog

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Feb 23 21:28:05 mail sendmail[22304]: NOQUEUE: connect from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Feb 23 21:28:05 mail sendmail[22304]: AUTH: available mech=LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 ANONYMOUS DIGEST-MD5, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
Feb 23 21:28:05 mail sendmail[22304]: l1NLS5MU022304: Milter: no active filter
Feb 23 21:28:15 mail sendmail[22304]: l1NLS5MU022304: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<some-scalix-email-address@scalix.com>, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=553 5.5.4 <some-scalix-email-address@scalix.com>... Domain name required for sender address MAIL-SYSTEM
Feb 23 21:28:15 mail sendmail[22304]: l1NLS5MU022304: from=<MAIL-SYSTEM>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

Where does it get the name 'MAIL-SYSTEM' from?

Thanks

William.

[Valerion]

MAIL-SYSTEM is the mail server itself. That message was BCC'ed to the admin mailbox internally. You can check /var/log/maillog to see if it went out to scalix.com.

[William]

it did not seem to go from the snippet of maillog that is attached to the posting above..hence the posting. I think I remembered that the admin account gets copied a copy of the email from the release notes et al.

Does your server say these emails are coming from 'MAIL-SYSTEM'?
I seem to remember that these types of email (sent from the system) do not bounce normally when they cannot be sent, rather they evaporate.