From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 10:05:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA18872 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:05:05 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA18852 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:05:02 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HRO1KOZP400018WC@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 18:45:58 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id SAA21169; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 18:56:33 +0200 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 18:56:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: FreeBSD WILL NOT work with sendmail In-reply-to: <199506131613.JAA07445@ix2.ix.netcom.com> from "Joe Nieten" at Jun 13, 95 09:13:56 am To: jnieten@ix.netcom.com (Joe Nieten) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199506131656.SAA21169@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1730 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Ok Folks, > > I have tried everything to get sendmail to work on my FreeBSD platform. > I have been asking questions for the last month - I really need some > help here! > > I have a machine that sits on the internet using an ISDN connection. I > have checked the router; the machine is accessible from the outside > world. Try it gandalf.otdc.com - I am even able to telnet to port 25. > I have checked the MX records and do not see any problem. So, it has to > be something with FreeBSD. I have a Linux box sitting right next to > this one and do not have any problems with the Linux box. I suspect something with your netstart/sysconfig files is messed. Or perhaps /etc/sendmail.cf. You may also be looking for /etc/resolv.conf, if the latter is set up correctly. Are you running as a nameserver? > > One thing that is different between the two platforms: > when I execute hostname on the Linux box it only gives the hostname > without the domain. (i.e. gandalf) However, on the FreeBSD machine it > gives the FQDN (i.e. gandalf.otdc.com). Now, on the Linux box when I > execute domainname I get the domain and on FreeBSD I get nothing. domainname has got nothing to do with internet domains! It's for YP/NIS domains. So forget about that. > > Is anyone out there using FreeBSD to recieve mail? I am running the You must be kidding :-). > latest version released by Walnut Creek. I need some place to look! > HELP! > > Joe > > -Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950606 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995 0606 #0: Tue Jun 6 19:13:32 MET DST 1995 kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de :/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386