From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 22:29:15 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 40DD037B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C0843E3B for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a054.otenet.gr [212.205.215.54]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7P5T9pD026298; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:29:09 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7P5T7sq075749; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:29:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7P5T6xh075748; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:29:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:29:04 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Lord Raiden Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: New fetchmail problem Message-ID: <20020825052904.GA75707@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.2.0.58.20020825013113.00963a90@192.168.0.25> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020825013113.00963a90@192.168.0.25> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-Phone: +30-944-116520 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 2002-08-25 01:33 +0000, Lord Raiden wrote: > Hi all. Really silly question. Ever since setting my fetchmail > program to start grabbing mail off of one of my other mail accounts, > I'm now starting to get a lot of wierd errors. This one spammed by > box most of today and I finally had to telnet in and hand delete the > message to get it to stop. This is not fetchmail's fault, but a Sendmail configuration issue. > fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address > freepasselgqxoak@nethostit.com does not resolve The message means that fetchmail has downloaded a message and tried to deliver it to your local SMTP listener. The Sendmail program receives this message from fetchmail, tries to resolve the domain of the sender, and returns a failure. You can disable the check for unresolvable domains in Sendmail by using the following in your .mc file under /etc/mail: FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve <> http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Aug 21 22:08:19 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message