From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 07:23:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24019 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 07:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minotaur.labyrinth.net.au (minotaur.labyrinth.net.au [203.9.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23999 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 07:23:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ashley@labyrinth.net.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by minotaur.labyrinth.net.au (8.8.6/8.8.6) id AAA25685 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:56:11 +1000 (EST) Received: from minerva-as2.labyrinth.net.au(203.23.74.2), claiming to be "insomnia.org.au" via SMTP by minotaur.labyrinth.net.au, id smtpdAAAa25682; Mon Apr 6 00:56:07 1998 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:23:43 +1000 (EST) From: Ashley X-Sender: ashley@insomnia.org.au To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: hostname/sendmail question... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi. i am having difficulties getting my system to work correctly when sending mail. pine works fine, and other programs that send using their own mechanisms. however, using slrn, elm, etc when i send an email it bounces back with the following errors.... i tried editing the sendmail.cf file. all i got from fiddling with that was it ended up thinking i was my isp (labyrinth.net.au) so mail to that domain all came back to me. any help greatly appreciated!! Ciao. Ashley. start---------------- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:19:21 +1000 (EST) To: ashley Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) [Part #1: Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 489] The original message was received at Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:19:17 +1000 (EST) from ashley@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ashley@labyrinth.net.au ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to minotaur.labyrinth.net.au.: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550 Sorry, your FROM address () is invalid. Please v erify this e-mail address before re-sending. 550 ashley@labyrinth.net.au... User unknown [Part #2: Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 409] Reporting-MTA: dns; insomnia.org.au Arrival-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:19:17 +1000 (EST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; ashley@labyrinth.net.au Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; minotaur.labyrinth.net.au Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Sorry, your FROM address () i s invalid. Please verify this e-mail address before re-sending. Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:19:20 +1000 (EST) [Part #3: Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 511] -- Start of included mail From: ashley Return-path: Subject: test To: ashley@labyrinth.net.au (Ashley Pirovich) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:19:16 +1000 (EST) work! -- End of included mail. finish------------ ================================================================= ashley@labyrinth.net.au http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~pirovich "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." Charles Caleb Colton ================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message