From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 07:13:06 2003 Return-Path: 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 6231837B404 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 07:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED8D43F85 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 07:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b226.otenet.gr [212.205.244.234]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4EECpg4015398; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4EECoMV085237; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4EDndJ5084619; Wed, 14 May 2003 16:49:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:49:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Evan Dower Message-ID: <20030514134939.GB83099@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: send-pr issues probably related to sendmail misconfiguration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:13:06 -0000 On 2003-05-13 19:50, Evan Dower wrote: > When I try to send-pr, I get: > > May 9 02:28:09 lojak sm-mta[21955]: h499RhZE021953: \ > to=, \ > ctladdr= (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 : Helo command rejected: Host not found You're trying to post mail from a host whose IP address is not static. The mail server at freebsd.org tries to lookup the hostname given in the HELO command your Sendmail sends, and fails. The message is returned with a temporary failure error code. When you're running Sendmail on a host with a dynamic IP address don't configure it to deliver mail directly. Use SMART_HOST to relay all your outgoing mail through the mail gateway of your ISP. > 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? No. Just like in Windows or X11 GUI mailers, that ask for an "outgoing mail server", where you explicitly direct all outgoing mail to something like mail.provider.com .. you need to tell Sendmail the same thing :-) - Giorgos