From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 10:56:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7873837B66A for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 28432 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2000 17:56:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 2 Jul 2000 17:56:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 1686 invoked by uid 211); 2 Jul 2000 17:56:46 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:26:46 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Francesco Casadei Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Can't send mail: HELO command rejected Message-ID: <20000702232646.C1606@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Francesco Casadei , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000624151304.25899.qmail@community.monrif.net> <20000702194241.A1910@casimirhost.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000702194241.A1910@casimirhost.kasby>; from fcasadei@monrif.net on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:42:41PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francesco Casadei said on Jul 2, 2000 at 19:42:41: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:12:32PM +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote: > > fcasadei@monrif.net writes: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I'm unable to send mail to freebsd-questions mailing list using mutt/qmail. I use mutt and qmail (on both freebsd and linux) and have no problems mailing the list. > > Solution: The SMTP client must identify itself correctly. -snip- > Final-Recipient: RFC822; > Action: failed > Status: 5.2.0 > Remote-MTA: dns; freebsd.org > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not > found ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > In fact the reverse DNS lookup on fep24-svc.tin.it fails: > > casimiro> host fep24-svc.tin.it > Host not found. Quite right: I can't find it with the host command on my machine either. If the host is correct, get a DNS entry for it, or else try routing your mails through some other machine on your network which does have a DNS entry: that's quite easy to do with qmail. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message