From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:37:10 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 2370837B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:37:08 -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 eA9Gb3l28760; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:37:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A0AD2B0.FE62CA20@planetwe.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:37:04 -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> <3A0AD0D5.A0F663C2@planetwe.com> <20001109063245.A11150@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 Anthony Fox wrote: > > 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. Anthony, if your domain exists, then can you run a lookup on the actual box? For instance, obviously planetwe.com exist, but you can't run an nslookup on leila.planetwe.com - so you can't send mail from it without having it masquerade as planetwe.com: (from sendmail.cf) # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMplanetwe.com this allows me to send mail as drew@planetwe.com. It looks like you probably have a similar situation. -- 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