Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:35:54 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple question about sendmail Message-ID: <3DA0828A.9020006@math.missouri.edu> References: <3DA06EDA.2050604@math.missouri.edu>
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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 ----- > <triangle@cauchy.math.missouri.edu> > (reason: 553 5.1.8 <triangle@hub.montlan>... Domain of sender > address triangle@hub.montlan does not exist) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to cauchy.math.missouri.edu.: > >>> MAIL From:<triangle@hub.montlan> SIZE=391 > <<< 553 5.1.8 <triangle@hub.montlan>... 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
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