From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:32:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (ares.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.137.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A967337B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:32:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:root@misty.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.137.140]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.9.2/8.9.2/UVACS-2000040300) with ESMTP id LAA01345; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:32:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from adf5j@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.2) id GAA11153; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:32:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:32:45 -0500 From: Anthony Fox To: Drew Sanford , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail, nonexistent domain, again Message-ID: <20001109063245.A11150@misty.cs.virginia.edu> Reply-To: Anthony Fox References: <20001109062245.A11122@misty.cs.virginia.edu> <3A0AD0D5.A0F663C2@planetwe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A0AD0D5.A0F663C2@planetwe.com>; from drew@planetwe.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:29:09AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:29:09AM -0600, Drew Sanford wrote: > > #----- 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. right, mydomain.tld was just an example. the real emails had my domain in there. :) i am sorry for the confusion. -anthony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message