Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:32:06 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: stuart@internationalschool.co.uk (Stuart Henderson) Cc: damascus@eden.rutgers.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NATD, Intermittent Problems. Message-ID: <199806012232.PAA19218@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <35726A88.7338B96D@internationalschool.co.uk> from Stuart Henderson at "Jun 1, 98 09:47:04 am"
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> Carroll Kong wrote: > > > > some mailing lists, it will say "thisemail@addr.com was not accept by > > your SMTP Server, change the recipient name." Okay... I am a bit fuzzy > > on natd... I thought it forwarded everything all fine and dandy. But I > > can RECEIVE mail, but I cannot SEND mail from the other computers. Many ISP's check the system name in the SMTP header against the name they get doing a reverse lookup on the IP address of the sender. They need to match. You need to make sure the sendmail on your NAT box is rewriting the headers generated by the systems behind the NAT. Sendmail calls this "masquerading", and you set it up by defining the 'M' macro in your sendmail.cf file. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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