From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 10:31:42 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 10:31:40 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929ED37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA30651; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:31:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:31:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT?: Sender domain problem with mail 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 Well, that was interesting. My mail message got truncated with that '.' in the first column. Here goes again: I am trying to fix 'mail' and I hope some learned person here can save me several hours of frustration. My exploring of the man pages has not helped so far. I am running FBSD 3.4R and am connected to the internet via @HOME (I hope it's ok to use their name. =o) cable modem. Here is what happend when I send mail: jfreeze@eeyore1 -> mail -v -s "hi" jim@freeze.org testing '.' EOT jim@freeze.org... Connecting to www.freeze.org. via esmtp... 220 freeze.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:02:06 -0500 (EST) >>> EHLO lxintn1.ky.home.com 250-freeze.org Hello ci590846-b.lxintn1.ky.home.com [24.9.218.175], pleased to meet you 250-EXPN 250-VERB 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ONEX 250-ETRN 250-XUSR 250 HELP >>> MAIL From: SIZE=41 501 ... Sender domain must exist jim@freeze.org... Data format error /home/jfreeze/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/jfreeze/dead.letter Closing connection to www.freeze.org. >>> QUIT 221 freeze.org closing connection As you can see, it thinks my sender domain is 501 ... Sender domain must exist instead of 250-freeze.org Hello ci590846-b.lxintn1.ky.home.com [24.9.218.175], I would think it would be obvious to change this, but I can't find where. TIA ==================================================== Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------- ** http://www.freeze.org ** ==================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message