From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 18:56:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26925 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:56:19 -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 SAA26908 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA03813; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:54:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Tima cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail problem and question In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Tima wrote: > I've just installed 2.2.7 > Problem: i can't send mail to any address outside of my domain, > though i can receive it from anywhere. > I receive the following error form my major realy host: > DNS lookup for domain failed... Is that relay host at your ISP? If it is, and he has working DNS, then the email address probably does have a bad domain name. If you are acting as the relay your DNS is probably not working. > question: what permission should i set for /var/mail ? 775 owned by bin group mail. > On Solaris I have dwrxwrxwrt. > But didn't find out how to set t on FreeBSD. 1777 sets that mode. Typically used for public tmp directories. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation 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