Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:13:28 -0800 From: John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1E6D565C-1AD3-11D7-A17C-0003937C0B34@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 04:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is > a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about > 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail > is delivered. > I just change my sendmail config (the .mc file) to send a resolvable domain name in the EHLO/HELO part of the SMTP conversation. I use an unresolvable domain name inside of my home network, and my mail server is internal, so of course servers like FreeBSD's would reject my hostname as unresolvable. If you're using sendmail, check out "confDOMAIN_NAME". -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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