Lenovo Thinkpad T500 - Ubuntu 16.04
Since my email provider has updated its security arrangements it can’t accept my emails sent from the command line with a sender name that is not my registered username – e.g. an alias. This ought not be a problem as I have set up my
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file with my registered base address that ought to be used by sendmail:
ssmtp.confroot=
[email protected]mailhub=mail.runbox.com:465
AuthUser=
[email protected]AuthPass={password}
UseTLS=YES
UseSSL=YES
rewriteDomain=mailco.com
hostname=T500
FromLineOverride=YES
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But when I use sendmail, it removes my surname from the “From” address and my mail provider rejects the email as the From name is incorrect:
[email protected]:~/.bin$ sendmail -v
[email protected] < mail_message
[<-] 220 mailfront20.runbox ESMTP Exim 4.90_1 Ubuntu Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:55:02 +0100
[->] EHLO T500
[<-] 250 HELP
[->] AUTH LOGIN
[<-] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
[->] a2VpdGhfc3RhbW1lcnNAcnVuYm94LmNvbQ==
[<-] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
[<-] 235 Authentication succeeded
[->] MAIL FROM:<
[email protected]>
[<-] 250 OK
[->] RCPT TO:<
[email protected]>
[<-] 250 Accepted
[->] DATA
[<-] 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
[->] Received: by T500 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:55:01 +0000
[->] From: "keith" <
[email protected]>
[->] Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:55:01 +0000
[->]
[->] Text for message
[->]
[->] .
[<-] 550
Invalid From address. Please see
https://help.mailco.com/identities/sendmail: 550 Invalid From address. Please see
https://help.mailco/identities/[email protected]:~/.bin$ In principle I could add the name "
[email protected]" to my account as an alias and that would work, but someone has already claimed that so I can't use it.
My mail provider has been unable to help me and I would be grateful for advice.
