From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 18 20:33:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20510 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silk.net (music.silk.net [206.12.206.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20501 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@silk.net) Received: from Support3 (support3.silk.net [204.244.106.70]) by silk.net (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA01478; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:33:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981218203423.006d5a08@silk.net> X-Sender: eddie@silk.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:34:23 -0800 To: David Kelly , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Eddie Lawhead Subject: Re: fetchmail, "Sender domain must resolve" In-Reply-To: <199812190426.WAA08099@n4hhe.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ... Sender domain must resolve >fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 ... 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