From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 15:59:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 2E7C337B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0175343FAF for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3BMx5JP015209; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:59:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E9748B9.3040300@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:59:05 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Scorciapino References: <200304111343.26510.konrad@scorciapino.org> In-Reply-To: <200304111343.26510.konrad@scorciapino.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with the list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:59:17 -0000 Konrad Scorciapino wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting a lot of error messages when sending emails to the mailing list. > Here are some exemples: > > Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours > > From: > Mail Delivery Subsystem > > > To: > > > > Date: > Yesterday 22:00:25 > > > ********************************************** > ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** > ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** > ********************************************** > > The original message was received at Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:46:27 -0300 > from 200-161-254-212.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.161.254.212] > > ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to mx1.freebsd.org.: > >>>>RCPT To: > > <<< 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [216.12.211.199] > ... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot > find your hostname, [216.12.211.199] > Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours > Will keep trying until message is 5 days old > > > Is this a problem with my mail service or with the list? This is in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES Looks like your RDNS isn't set up correctly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com