Domain Issues on Pi 2

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1. HELP.. I have a new PI installation – bang up to date and I have everything working – I even tested email…. sent myself an email from the command line – that worked…
   But… my RAMLOG is not sending me emails at night… and I got an email to say:

   Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

   postmaster@mypi

   Technical details of permanent failure:
   DNS Error: Address resolution of mypi. failed: Domain name not found

   Now, I’ve been into etc/apache2/apache2.conf and put Servername=mypi…..

   But I can’t even FIND etc/aliases

   Anyone a whiz at this?

2. And on the question of having email delivered from cron, or anything else on the system…

   What you’re doing with the following commands is ensuring that -any- undeliverable mail goes to you directly by updating the “postmaster” address on your Pi.

   Edit the file /etc/aliases and replace the “root” in the postmaster: root line with the email address that is already working for you with your php crontab entry. – This tells the email system the real-world address of the human who needs to see the email messages.

   Run “sudo newaliases”. – This tells the mail system to update it’s internal database from the text file you’ve just edited.

   Optional:- Use man -k aliases to find all of the manual pages which refer to aliases (just in case Raspbian has the file hidden somewhere else) and man newaliases to get more info on the specific version of the “newaliases” command which Raspbian has installed.

   1. Hi PuceBaboon

      Erm, well, I found etc/aliases and updated the postmaster entry as your suggestion but when I tried “sudo newaliases” this is what I got.

      pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo newaliases
      newaliases: Aliases are not used in sSMTP
      pi@raspberrypi ~ $

      Thoughts?

      1. Yup, if it really is sSMPT (I thought that was nailed to the perch, nowadays?) then you should find a config file at /etc/ssmpt/ssmpt.conf.

         Near the very top of the file is the line “root=postmaster”. If your update to the alias file didn’t work as expected, you can change the word “postmaster” to be your email address. The easiest way to have it take effect is probably a quick reboot.

3. So logrotate is a process that does exaclty that, it rotates all of your logs in /var/log* generally on a daily basis although it is configurable, you can look at the various configs in /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/

   It looks like the error you are getting is due to an Apache config warning. If you look at the /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 configuration for logrotate you will see that after the daily logrotate runs for apache2 it reloads the service. I am pretty sure if you run the command sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload it will spit the same warning out.

   To fix this you will need to update you apache config located at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and add a line that says ‘Servername localhost’

   1. Thank you very much, Ben. Pretty much as you described and that particular error message has now gone away. Does make one wonder why that’s not in the basic setup – thousands of beginners setting these things up for the first time probably don’t need messages like that to confuse the issue 🙂

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