From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 12:29:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08568 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08498 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:28:56 GMT (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15057; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:26:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:26:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Marco A. Barbosa S." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with mailer.. In-Reply-To: <199804171744.KAA00371@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Marco A. Barbosa S. wrote: > well, hmmm... I can understand that... but... > why would it tell me the same thing when I tried to mail > majordomo@freebsd.org to give it some commands? > plus... I have always mailed to msu.oscs.montana.edu > never had any problems... until recently... You should always use the most general email address that will work. If rwhite@montana.edu works, use that. When you specify subdomains and machine names you're counting on network topology you don't have any control over to remain the same. The bigger the network the less likely this is to be true. Now this doesn't explain problems mailing to majordomo@freebsd.org so send an example bounce from that. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message