From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 15: 7:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B010137B404 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:07:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1ON6v510293; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:06:57 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:06:57 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Tim Preece Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem sending mails to mailing lists Message-ID: <20020225120657.A10241@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020224202322.701F637B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020224202322.701F637B405@hub.freebsd.org>; from tim@cpio.nildram.co.uk on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:23:17PM +0000 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 Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:23:17PM +0000, Tim Preece wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems sending mail from my computer to any of the mailing lists. I am using sendmail on 4.5-stable i386. > > The error I am getting back from sendmail is: > > Deferred: 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found. FreeBSD's mailserver is *very* picky. If your host announces itself as xxx.domain.com in the initial HELO greeting, it will attempt a lookup of the given host. If that fails, it will terminate the conversation. Configure your MTA to announce itself as it should be seen from the outside, and not to use it's internal fqdn. Under sendmail you can add this to your mail-server's mc file: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `domain.com')dnl -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message