Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 12:55:30 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Change to "why does my mail to FreeBSD.org bounce" FAQ Message-ID: <20020407115530.GA79270@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20020405155943.GA25988@submonkey.net> References: <20020405155943.GA25988@submonkey.net>
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Here's the latest incarnation of the patch.
I think it's the best I can do without getting overly technical here.
Ceri
--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml.old Sun Apr 7 12:42:38 2002
+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml Sun Apr 7 12:50:36 2002
@@ -11186,6 +11186,27 @@
option. In this case, relay your email through your
service provider's mail server.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The hostname given in the EHLO/HELO part of the SMTP
+ exchange cannot be resolved to an IP address.</para>
+
+ <para>A fully qualified, resolvable host name is necessary
+ in this part of the SMTP dialogue before mail will be
+ accepted. If you do not have a host name that is registered
+ in the DNS, then you should use your service provider's mail
+ server to relay your mail.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Your message had a message ID ending with the string
+ <quote>localhost</quote>.</para>
+
+ <para>Some mail user agents generate bad message IDs which will
+ not be accepted. You will need to persuade your mail user
+ agent to generate a valid message ID or else configure your
+ mail transfer agent to rewrite them.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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