On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 07:22:56PM +0000, g4sra wrote:
> On 24/12/2019 13:42, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Every once in a while I get this message:

,,,

> >> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> >> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
> >> failed:
> >>

> >>  survey@???
> >>    host mail.guardedhost.com [2607:fe90:1:1::1e]
> >>     SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined MAIL
> >> +FROM:<root@???> SIZE=27816 AUTH=root@???:
> >>     553 5.7.1 <root@???>: Sender address rejected:
> >>    not owned by user brownh@???

> >>
> >> [-- Attachment #2 --]
> >> [-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
> >>
> >> Reporting-MTA: dns; engels.histomat.net
> >>
> >> Action: failed
> >> Final-Recipient: rfc822;survey@???
> >> Status: 5.0.0
> >> Remote-MTA: dns; mail.guardedhost.com
> >> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553 5.7.1 <root@???>: Sender address
> >> rejected:
> >> +not owned by user brownh@???

> > It seems popcorn is sending its message from root@???, but
> > this address not owned by user. The diagnostic code saeems to say that
> > the dng@??? recipient does not recognize root@???.
> >
>
> I believe it is complaining that histomat.net does not belong to
> historicalmaterialism.info

I don't think "it" here can refer my mail server or dng list because
other mail gets throughn OK. I did not experience this problem
before upgrading from Ascii to Beowulf.

In the error message above, it says FROM is root#histomat.net. Not
sure, but I don't think that is a valid address outside my local
system. Please correct me if I am wrong. So in
/usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf I uncommented the MAILFROM=
line and provided my user address to see if it corrects the problem.
The popularity info is sent weekly, and so I suppose I should wait a
week to see if this solves the problem.


Haines Brown