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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:22:45 -0500
From: Anthony Fox <adf5j@cs.virginia.edu>
To: questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: sendmail, nonexistent domain, again
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I just tried to send the below message, but I tried to process it 
which resulted in failed mail.  So here it is again:

I am having problems sending mail from my server BSD box.
I receive a MAILER DAEMON reply when I try to send a message
with the following contents:

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Nov  9 10:53:48 2000
#Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:48 GMT
#From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
#To: ant
#Subject: Returned mail: Data format error
#
#[-- Attachment #1 --]
#[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --]
#
#The original message was received at Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:47 GMT
#from ant@localhost
#
   #----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
#adf5j@virginia.edu
#
   #----- Transcript of session follows -----
#... while talking to mail.virginia.edu.:
#>>> MAIL From:<ant@thewall.mydomain.tld>
#<<< 501 Sender domain must exist
#501 adf5j@virginia.edu... Data format error
#
#[-- Attachment #2 --]
#[-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
#
#Reporting-MTA: dns; thewall.mydomain.tld
#Arrival-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:47 GMT
#
#Final-Recipient: RFC822; adf5j@virginia.edu
#Action: failed
#Status: 5.5.2
#Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.virginia.edu
#Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 Sender domain must exist
#Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:48 GMT
#
#[-- Attachment #3 --]
#[-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.5K --]
#
#Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:16 +0000
#From: Anthony Fox <ant@mydomain.tld>
#To: adf5j@virginia.edu
#Subject: tryingas
#
#asdf;lkj
#------------------------------------------------------------------------

I think that the problem is that the hostname.domainname doesn't exist.
My domain name exists and is registered.  I use mutt as my mail client, 
so I have tried setting the headers to be me@mydomain.tld rather than
me@myhostname.mydomainname.tld, but this didn't seem to do anything.

I feel like this should be a simple problem to fix, but I haven't 
managed to find the solution anywhere.  Does anyone know a quick
solution to this?

TIA,
-anthony.


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