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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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