From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 17:08:22 2003 Return-Path: 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 BB25E16A4D8 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.auug.org.au (www.auug.org.au [150.101.248.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A6443F75 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (unknown [192.109.197.80]) by www.auug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D757A9A425 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:38:17 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C27B053163; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:36:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:36:16 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: dick hoogendijk Message-ID: <20030918010616.GA37023@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030916223355.GA28873@lothlorien.nagual.st> <20030916223355.GA28873@lothlorien.nagual.st> <5.2.0.9.2.20030916232551.021e4620@pop.voyager.net> <20030917032449.GL7654@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030917092431.GA19918@lothlorien.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBii9oQw/U9UOygZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030917092431.GA19918@lothlorien.nagual.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: why X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:08:22 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:08:22 -0000 --gBii9oQw/U9UOygZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 11:24:31 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 17 Sep Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 23:27:05 -0700, Dragoncrest wrote: >>> At 08:23 AM 9/17/03 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 0:33:56 +0200, dick hoogendijk >>>> wrote: >>>>> why is it i can't connect? >>>> >>>> Because something's wrong. >>> >>> LOL. You're mean. ;) >> >> Heh. Yes, I was planning to follow up with a more useful message >> (like "read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html"), but you got there >> first. Dick, remember that people here are working for you for free. >> Don't make it more difficult than necessary. > > I'm sorry guys. You're absolutely right! Won't happen again (hopefully) > and I can connect again ;-)) > I installed courier (replaces sendmail) and forgot to set the "me" file > so mail got delivered as "machinename.nagual.st" which is bounced by the > freebsd server. Sending mail as "nagual.st" (domain only) works fine. > > Yesterday I changed my zonefiles to reflect "lothlorien.nagual.st" as my > nagual.st IP but that did not do the trick at the fbsd mailersite. I had > expected it to work as resolving would be possible now. So I changed it > back. > > How do I send mail to the fbsd server under the name of the machine the > mail's coming from? If not "nagual.st = IP --> machine.nagual.st = IP > how do I go about it than? You shouldn't want to do that. It's better to hide the machine name and use the domain name for mail. If that doesn't work, it's probably a problem with your DNS. You should have at least one MX record for the domain. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --gBii9oQw/U9UOygZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/aQUIIubykFB6QiMRAtg0AKCHhvBA87i70kfRaNMHykYUfX89wACeKU6g Eg1siP31K9t0kQ3cgJkWuFU= =MNGt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBii9oQw/U9UOygZ--