Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:39:39 -0700 From: "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> To: mij@soupnazi.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: send-pr issues probably related to sendmail misconfiguration Message-ID: <BAY8-F68iZvwhgXtHfG000111ac@hotmail.com>
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sendmail config confounds me. how do I do that?
Thanks,
Evan
>From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
>
>On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Evan Dower wrote:
>>When I try to send-pr, I get:
>>
>>May 9 02:28:09 lojak sm-mta[21955]: h499RhZE021953:
>>to=<FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>,
>>ctladdr=<evantd@lojak.washington.edu> (1001/1001), delay=00:00:26,
>>xdelay=00:00:25, mailer=esmtp, pri=30460, relay=mx1.freebsd.org.
>>[216.136.204.125], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 <lojak.washington.edu>:
>>Helo command rejected: Host not found
>>
>>I can 'mail evantd@hotmail.com' just fine, but I suspect that the hotmail
>>servers don't resolve hostnames. lojak.washington.edu is NOT an FQDN, but
>>it's a lot nicer looking. I suppose I could try changing whatever needs to
>>be changed to my FQDN, but what exactly would need to be changed? Is that
>>even what seems to be necessary?
>
>The FreeBSD mail server will bounce anything that doesn't resolve. If UW
>gave you a smart host (a.k.a., SMTP server) on their network to use,
>configure sendmail to use it.
>
>- jim
>
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