Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:34:23 -0800 From: Eddie Lawhead <eddie@silk.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail, "Sender domain must resolve" Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981218203423.006d5a08@silk.net> In-Reply-To: <199812190426.WAA08099@n4hhe.ampr.org>
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Hello, This is a rule in the sendmail.cf file. I think if you search /etc/sendmail.cf for "required" you will find it. The default sendmail.cf file requires a domain as well as checking the domain to see if it resolves/exists. Eddie Lawhead eddie@silk.NOSPAM.net At 10:26 PM 12/18/98 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >Message below from fetchmail 4.6.0 on FreeBSD 3.0-current. >"abcde@efghij.klmnop.Toronto.ON.CA" is mostly faked (by me) to protect >whoever is sending this email to me: > >fetchmail: 137 messages for dkelly at fly.hiwaay.net (458628 bytes). >fetchmail: reading message 1 of 137 (1568 bytes) (log message incomplete) >fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 <abcde@efghij.klmnop.Toronto.ON.CA>... Sender domain must resolve >fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 <dkelly>... Domain name required >fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from fly.hiwaay.net >fetchmail: Query status=10 > >Is the above really coming from fetchmail, or is it sendmail 8.9 on my >system that is refusing the handoff from fetchmail? What do I do to >prevent this in the future? > >FWIW: I have a shell account so I have telneted in, saved the offending >message. And now fetchmail works. > >-- >David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net >===================================================================== >The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its >capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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