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I've recently become aware that my server on one of my domains (the primary one that I set up in scalix) is setting the return address to myname@mail.domain.com instead of myname@domain.com. I looked in the admin interface and can't see where this is set...?

Hi. The From: field is derived from the first Internet address listed in either SAC or from an omshowu. So, for example, if an omshowu shows the following:

Internet Address : "Test User" <test.user@mail.domain.com>="Test User" <test.user@domain.com>

then the From: field will be: Test User <test.user@mail.domain.com>

If you switch those around in SAC, then the second address will be used.

Thanks,
Rachel

Neonblue wrote:I've recently become aware that my server on one of my domains (the primary one that I set up in scalix) is setting the return address to myname@mail.domain.com instead of myname@domain.com. I looked in the admin interface and can't see where this is set...?

This also happens when your /etc/mail/local-host-names is empty or does not list your domain.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap22sec180.html

and /etc/mail/local-host-names

In short, if a line for your domain is missing in this file, the outgoing hostname is used.

Cheers,

Sascha.

I verified the local-host-names and both the domainname.com and mail.domainname.com are listed. The domainname.com is listed above the mail.domainname.com.

I also looked in the admin again just to be sure, and I don't see anywhere where the "mail" is listed before the domainname in the config.

Any more ideas?

Hi. Can you post the output from an omshowu of one of your users (see my message from Jan 03 above). The command would be:

omshowu -n "user name"

where "user name" is the name of a user. The specific line I'm looking for is the one that starts with:

Internet Address :

If you want the domain.com to the be the default name in the domainname dropdown, edit:

/etc/opt/scalix/caa/scalix.res/config/ubermanager.properties and search for the line:

ubermanager.console.localDomains=

change that so it reads:

ubermanager.console.localDomains=domain.com,mail.domain.com

or if you never want to use mail.domain.com you can just leave that off. Once that's done restart tomcat.

Thanks,
Rachel

Got it. The etc/mail/local-host-names was the issue; I just didn't restart tomcat. I changes the order that was listed and put the mail.domainname.com at the bottom of the file.

Incidentally, I couldn't run the above command. It kept saying the user did not exist. I tried:

omshowu -n "sjohnson"
and
omshowu -n "sjohnson@domain.com"

The first one says the user doesn't exist and the second states "The name/mailnode contains invalid characters" I assume that it's because of the @.

Thanks for all your help!

Hi. The "-n" parameter would be the name of the user, so if the person's name is "sam johnson", you would type:

omshowu -n "sam johnson"

you can get more details on the usage of omshowu from the manpage (i.e. man omshowu).

Thanks,
Rachel