From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 22:14: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.sit.edu.my (saturn.sit.edu.my [202.184.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477CA37B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:13:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my) Received: from LION (pmail.sit.edu.my [202.184.64.6]) by saturn.sit.edu.my (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4U5JeB07131; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:19:40 +0800 Received: from LION/SpoolDir by LION (Mercury 1.47); 30 May 01 13:16:44 +0800 Received: from SpoolDir by LION (Mercury 1.47); 30 May 01 13:16:44 +0800 From: "Lim Seng Chor" Organization: Sepang Institute of Technology To: "Sean Knox" Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:16:38 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3B14F2B1.19722.2D8B0A9@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG did u run a test like : sendmail -v username@domain.net did it report any errors? On 29 May 2001, at 22:08, Sean Knox wrote: > Hello all, > > Having some problems with Sendmail 8.11.3 and virtual users. I > successfully set up masquerading to allow emails to > "username@domain.net" instead of 'username@machine.domain.net' > Unfortunately, if I set my email address in my MUA (Outlook Express in > this example) to username@domain.net, sendmail responds with: > > May 29 21:55:28 freebsd-1 sendmail[739]: f4U4tSL00739: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=, > relay=username.domain.net[10.10.50.123], reject=501 5.1.8 > ... Domain of sender address username@domain.net > does not exist ----- snip > > Thus, I am required to enter my email address as > 'username@machine.domain.net' in my MUA. How do I fix this? > Also, Ted Mittelstaedt mentions in his book that masquerading should > only be a temporarily measure. What is a better configuration (maybe > Ted himself can answer this one) > > Regards, > Sean Knox > sknox@cqos.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message