From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 11:35:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BCC37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccmmhc01.mchsi.com (sccmmhc01.mchsi.com [204.127.203.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DEB43E77 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([12.216.242.20]) by sccmmhc01.mchsi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021006183554.YVBK3589.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@math.missouri.edu>; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:35:54 +0000 Message-ID: <3DA0828A.9020006@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:35:54 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple question about sendmail References: <3DA06EDA.2050604@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sorry I bothered you with this question - I found all the answers in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It was not quite as hard as I expected. Stephen Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > 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 ----- > > (reason: 553 5.1.8 ... Domain of sender > address triangle@hub.montlan does not exist) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to cauchy.math.missouri.edu.: > >>> MAIL From: SIZE=391 > <<< 553 5.1.8 ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message