From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 21:14:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212AF37B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA14325 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:31:46 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e874EJG06614 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:14:19 +0400 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:14:19 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail problem Message-ID: <20000907081419.A6441@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01f601c01844$70453380$61772197@c4b5a1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <01f601c01844$70453380$61772197@c4b5a1>; from flag@libero.it on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:51:19PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP X-Best-Window-Manager: Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:51:19PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: > I've some problems with my BSD box (4.1 STABLE) and sendmail. > > 1) Sendmail doesn't change my From: line of my email even if I use the -f > switch. > I launch sendmail with this parameters "-bd -fflag@libero.it", but all my > emails comes from flag@localhost > I MUST change that line...=P :-) # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain Djraduga.dyndns.org > > > 2) Sendmail seems to be unable to resolve correctly my ip/name. I use dialup > so I haven't a DNS ready to respond to my request at any moment, and in my > /etc/hosts there is: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain sendmail does not use /etc/hosts !!!! You need local DNS server. Setting it up is not so hard. You can also setup caching nameserver which will size down your external traffic and so will speed up your Internet connection. > > 3) I have I dialup so anytime I try to send an email to other domain than > localhost I get a "cannot check MX...", I resolved this changing the > DeliveryMode from queue to deferred but I dislike this solution.... Use your ISP as relay (ask them) Or go to www.dyndns.org or www.myip.org or www.dhs.net or ... there are so many free dynamic DNS suppliers :-) > > p.s. Apologize me for my bad english Me too :-)) -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message