Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:31:36 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set qualified domain for mail/sendmail? Message-ID: <3A563D38.D17260B4@mail.iowna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101051621070.23652-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
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Jim Freeze wrote: > The from domain is > > 501 <jfreeze@lxintn1.ky.home.com>... 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. > > Can some mail guru help me out here? Yes, it'll be obvious shortly. sendmail is checking the DNS to verify your hostname. Your IP resolves to ci490846-b.lxintn1.ky.home.com according to @HOME's DNS servers. You could probably solve this by setting up a /etc/hosts file with the name you want to use. I'm not sure if sendmail checks the DNS or hosts file first, though, so you may have to do something more than that. Possibly setting up a local DNS server on your machine, or reconfiguring sendmail not to attempt to resolve IP addresses into DNS names. If you do the last one, be careful that spammers can't abuse you! -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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