From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 30 18:20:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF6737B406 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DD6A76AB08; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:50:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:50:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Parker Brown Cc: Bill Moran , BSDQuestions Subject: Re: You Seem To Be Undeliverable Message-ID: <20011001105057.B31215@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3BB3E9F0.7B0845E5@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB3E9F0.7B0845E5@charter.net>; from phbrown@charter.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:09:36PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Thursday, 27 September 2001 at 20:09:36 -0700, Parker Brown wrote: > Usually "reply" gets the address correctly. What is your correct E-mail > address? The Email address is correct. Read the error message: > Failed to deliver to 'questions@freebsd.org' > SMTP module(domain freebsd.org) reports: > host hub.freebsd.org says: > 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found HELO is the first part of the ESMTP protocol. It specifies the name of the host. FreeBSD checks that name, and in this case it doesn't find it: === grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttypa) ~ 2 -> nslookup dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net Server: echunga.lemis.com Address: 192.109.197.82 *** echunga.lemis.com can't find dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net: Non-existent host/domain In other words, your mail is "forged": the name it specifies isn't registered. Based on the name, I'd guess that this is a problem with your ISP. If you can, get them to clean up their act (make sure they include reverse DNS as well). Otherwise look for another ISP. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message