From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 9:39: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A572537B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.microcell.ca (gatekeeper.microcell.ca [205.151.8.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D301E43FCB for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Received: from mailserv.microcell.ca (mailserv.microcell.ca [10.2.0.87]) by gatekeeper.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643A216CA1; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:38:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E97916BC7; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:38:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from lenard.admin.fido.ca (lamus.fido.ca [10.0.1.45]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6461F16BCE; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:38:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (magni.microcell.ca [10.6.22.102]) by lenard.admin.fido.ca (SMTP_Gateway) with ESMTP id 3BD6C47D3C; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:38:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (localhost.microcell.ca [127.0.0.1]) by magni.microcell.ca (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h26Hi4sB044040; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:44:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Received: (from ebaroud@localhost) by magni.microcell.ca (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h26Hi4SB044039; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:44:04 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: magni.microcell.ca: ebaroud set sender to SoHo@admin.fido.ca using -f Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:44:04 -0500 From: Edmond Baroud To: Brian Henning Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd Subject: Re: mail problem Message-ID: <20030306174404.GA43840@admin.fido.ca> References: <20030306170049.GA78754@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.64 2002/10/22 16:37:04 bre Exp $ 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 you have config your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to masquerade a FQDN. the only thing I can tell u to add and try is: DMYourFQDNhere eg: DMhotmail.com you'll get your email from b1henning@hotmail.com if your Unix user is b1henning. if this doesnt work, search for how to config your sendmail.cf's version for masquerading, old versions require more options at the bottom of the file in the envelope rewriting options. Ed. Quoting Brian Henning (b1henning@hotmail.com): > > On 2003-03-06 10:51, Brian Henning wrote: > > > i am able to perform the following command fine when i want to send > > > mail on the local network. > > > > > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" henninb@localhost > > > > > > is there a flag that i can pass to mail to tell it to use the proper > > > server for when i want to perform this operation to an address > > > outside my local network? > > > > > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" b1henning@hotmail.com > > > > Have you checked your /var/log/maillog file? Any hints there? > > > > When you say that you are unable to use mail(1), do you mean that you > > get the message returned to your local mailbox? If yes, what is the > > precise error that the failed delivery contains? > > > > - Giorgos > > > > ... while talking to mail.navitaire.com.: > >>> MAIL From: SIZE=389 > <<< 553 5.1.8 ... Domain of sender address henni > nb@trinity.the-matrix.net does not exist > > > the error seems to point to the domain name of my internal network... is there a > way to change this such that the server will accept my emial? > > thanks, > brian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message