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Date:      Sun, 06 Oct 2002 12:11:54 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Simple question about sendmail
Message-ID:  <3DA06EDA.2050604@math.missouri.edu>

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I am using the default freebsd sendmail set up.  I don't want to learn
the theory of sendmail - I just want to make a simple change.

I want to send an email from a FreeBSD computer that is on an internal
network called montlan.  I am sending the email to another computer,
called cauchy, that is outside of the network.  The computer cauchy is
not accepting the email - it complains with the following message:

The original message was received at Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:01:14 -0500 (CDT)
from triangle@localhost.client.mchsi.com [127.0.0.1]

     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<triangle@cauchy.math.missouri.edu>
      (reason: 553 5.1.8 <triangle@hub.montlan>... Domain of sender
address triangle@hub.montlan does not exist)

     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to cauchy.math.missouri.edu.:
  >>> MAIL From:<triangle@hub.montlan> SIZE=391
<<< 553 5.1.8 <triangle@hub.montlan>... Domain of sender address
triangle@hub.montlan does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error

So somehow I need to tell the sendmail on hub.montlan to advertise the
name xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.client.mchsi.com (which is the true name of the
connection) rather than hub.montlan.

Alternatively, I could tell cauchy to accept emails from hub.montlan
even though the domain does not actually exist.

So how would I make changes to the sendmail configuration to bring about
these changes?



-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen



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