From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:29:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B95937B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eA9GT8l26176; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:29:09 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A0AD0D5.A0F663C2@planetwe.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:29:09 -0600 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Fox Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail, nonexistent domain, again References: <20001109062245.A11122@misty.cs.virginia.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > #----- Transcript of session follows ----- > #... while talking to mail.virginia.edu.: > #>>> MAIL From: > #<<< 501 Sender domain must exist > #Reporting-MTA: dns; thewall.mydomain.tld > #From: Anthony Fox Thats all you need to know: root@db(~)# nslookup mydomain.tld Server: admin.planetwe.com Address: 10.0.0.1 *** admin.planetwe.com can't find mydomain.tld: Non-existent host/domain obviously mydomain.tld does not exist, and no mail relay host in its right circut is going accept mail from a domain that doesn't exist. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message