From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 15:29:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA5437B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 15:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust201.tnt2.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.90.201]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28713; Thu, 24 May 2001 15:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA05038; Thu, 24 May 2001 18:28:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105242228.SAA05038@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: email setup problems In-Reply-To: <000b01c0e3ac$afce8040$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> from jason at "May 23, 2001 01:20:38 pm" To: jasonc@concentric.net (jason) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:28:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not sure what the problem is but here is a great website for email. www.moongroup.org Ian As told by, jason [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I am trying to setup sendmail so I can start getting mail on my bsd machine. > I followed the limited info in the online handbook but was unable to > successfully get it to send email. > > The only indication of the problem is the following error that I cant seem > to figure out > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2 > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2 > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2 > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2 > > The errors appear at the same time every day. I have only one interface and > assigned 3 ip addresses to it. The addresses above are setup as aliases and > the 216.27.148.138 has a valid dns hostname assigned by my ISP as well as a > domain name I have pointed to it. 192.168.1.2 is my backup connection on > another ISP. > > I also am totally unable to get the machine to receive email from the > internet. I have the MX record to point to the main ip 216.27.148.136 but > any email sent to my domain is rejected and returned to sender after several > days. I need a better resource for setting up my bsd box to send/receive > email as well as running pop3 type daemon. The resources on the freebsd.org > web site are very limited and leaves me with more questions then when I > started. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message