From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 09:10:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA25773 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:10:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from vic.cioe.com (vic.cioe.com [204.120.165.37]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25767 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by vic.cioe.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id MAA02032 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:04:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:04:35 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie Root Message-Id: <199601161704.MAA02032@vic.cioe.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: default sendmail.cf broken? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I get the following results when attempting to send an email message to certain systems: test@vm.cc.purdue.edu... Connecting to vm.cc.purdue.edu. via smtp... 220 VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU running IBM VM SMTP V2R3 on Tue, 16 Jan 96 12:05:33 EST >>> HELO vic.cioe.com 250 VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU is my domain name. >>> MAIL From: 501 Syntax Error. Missing Domain Name test@vm.cc.purdue.edu... Data format error root... Connecting to local... root... Sent MAILER-DAEMON... Closing connection to vm.cc.purdue.edu. >>> QUIT 221 VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU running IBM VM SMTP V2R3 closing connection Null message body; hope that's ok It would seem (after a bit of poking around) that the default sendmail.cf file is invalid. It does not fully qualify the sender when delivering mail (this can easily be seen by sending yourself a message from one system to another and examining the From line, or using 'mail -v'). Not being a sendmail guru.. and wanting to sendmail to these systems... What's the quick&dirty work around to get the sender to fully qualify? Also... is this going to be fixed in future releases? -Steve