From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 0:59:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040EE37B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Wa68-000Kci-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:58:20 +0300 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:58:20 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sendmail / mutt errors Message-ID: <20000906105820.A73723@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Christopher W. Aiken on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:03:26PM -0400 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 10:49AM up 8 days, 23:39, 11 users, load averages: 0.31, 0.37, 0.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Christopher W. Aiken : [000906 04:02]: Christopher W. Aiken> Christopher W. Aiken> Christopher W. Aiken>How can I set up "sendmail" or "mutt" to avoid the following Christopher W. Aiken>errors that I'm getting with FreeBSD 4.1? I changed the Christopher W. Aiken>email address to "protect the innocent". :) Talk to the Admin at your ISP to let you do smart-host delivery. You'll configure sendmail (your problem is not with mutt) to dump all outbound mail at your ISP's mail server which will in turn send the mail to the final destination. The problem, I suspect, is about DNS. Your host is failing the reverse name resolution test. This could be due to the fact that your IP address is dynamically allocated from your ISP. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "My Lost Youth" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message