From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 18:41:42 2002 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 A08E237B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (oe40.pav2.hotmail.com [64.4.36.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D20D43E42 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:41:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kizer5000@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:41:40 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [66.136.94.79] From: "Kizer" To: Subject: Root Mail Problems Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Nov 2002 02:41:40.0267 (UTC) FILETIME=[899B47B0:01C282E2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Users, I've been using FreeBSD for quite some time now and have never had any real difficulty with it until now. My BSD box (4.7) runs as a gateway/firewall for my adsl and i've been doing a little fine tuning lately, and one of those is to get my BSD box to forward all mail that is sent to the root account to my real email address. I figured this wouldn't be to difficult. I've tried two things so far which both don't work. 1) Create a .forward file in my root folder with my email address in it, this supposedly will forward all mail to the address. This didn't work. 2) Edited the aliases file in /etc and added my email address (and rebuilt) for the root account. This didn't work either. After inspecting the maillog here is what I'm seeing. ---------------------- Nov 2 03:11:43 Kantserver sendmail[1284]: gethostbyaddr(1.1.4.1) failed: 1 Nov 2 03:11:43 Kantserver sendmail[1284]: gA29BhZg001284: from=kizer, size=345, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200211020911.gA29BhZg001284@Kantserver>, relay=root@localhost Nov 2 03:11:47 Kantserver sendmail[1286]: gA29BhZg001284: to=emcgough@sbcglobal.net, ctladdr=kizer (1001/0), delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=esmtp, pri=30054, relay=vm4-ext.prodigy.net. [207.115.63.115], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error Nov 2 03:11:47 Kantserver sendmail[1286]: gA29BhZg001284: gA29BlZf001286: DSN: Data format error Nov 2 03:11:47 Kantserver sendmail[1286]: gA29BlZf001286: to=kizer, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31369, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ---------------------- I'm not good at reading these but is the prodigy address telling me that it doesn't like the fact the the from address isn't from a FQDN? That's the impression that I get. Funny thing is this...I can run the same command to send an email to my hotmail account and it WILL work, or a friends email and it WILL work, so what gives? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message