Fwd: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:30:47PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> E3E77108118: to=<lchata at sbcgobal.net>,orig_to=<root at ubuntu>, relay=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11]:25,> delay=0.65, delays=0.01/0.05/0.5/0.08, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11] said: 530 authentication required - for help go to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbc/dsl/mail/pop/pop-11.html (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

The above line shows 'orig_to' was 'root at ubuntu'. Postfix forwarded this
to lcahat at sbcgobal.net, probably because of an alias definition in
/etc/aliases (or /etc/mail/aliases). It was then relayed (via
postfix's relayhost declaration) via smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com. That
host is insisting on some kind of authentication, which it does not
get, so it bounces it. There may be a deadletter file on system with
non deliverable mail. Maybe.

You probably want this kind of mail to stay on the system, and not be
'relayed'. So I'd check the aliases. It should be 

 root: lchata 

(or whatever your local $USER account name is). Then run the postalias
command against the alias file and then 'postfix reload' afterwards.


> AC8BA10811A: to=<lchata at sbcgobal.net>, relay=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11]:25, delay=0.53, delays=0.02/0/0.39/0.11, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.198.11] said: 530 authentication required - for help go to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbc/dsl/mail/pop/pop-11.html (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

Bounced.

-- 
Hal