From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 03:28:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39968106567E for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 03:28:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E808FC17 for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 03:28:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl105-70.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.224.70]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-1) with ESMTP id m4K3S2Aq021647 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 20 May 2008 06:28:09 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4K3S2cD008194; Tue, 20 May 2008 06:28:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4K3S1Ww008193; Tue, 20 May 2008 06:28:01 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Montag" References: <1211239052.24579.1254029483@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 06:28:01 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1211239052.24579.1254029483@webmail.messagingengine.com> (montag@activeattack.com's message of "Mon, 19 May 2008 18:17:32 -0500") Message-ID: <87zlql7iym.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m4K3S2Aq021647 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.36, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.04, BAYES_00 -2.60, FB_WORD1_END_DOLLAR 1.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: Problem Sending Mail With Postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 03:28:51 -0000 On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:17:32 -0500, "Montag" wrote: > I've got Postfix SMTP server set up on a FreeBSD 7 box. I'm receiving > mail just fine, and I can send mail to my other web accounts (gmail), > but my mail is getting rejected from the mailing lists. Here is the > output from the local mail queue: > > host mx1.free.bsd.org said: my.mywebsite.com: Helo command rejected: > Host not found (in reply to RCPT TO command)) > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Any thoughts? I typed "sendmail -bp" to print that, which is curious, > because I'm pretty sure sendmail is not running; Postfix should be > handling everything. You have misspelled the hostname `mx1.freebsd.org'. Did you, by any chance, also edit the hostname of the error message? Are you _really_ the owner of `my.mywebsite.com' or is this just something you manually wrote when copying the error? If you manually modified the original error, to hide the domain name, we have to `guess' why the mx1.freebsd.org host fails to resolve your hostname. Please show us the real hostname, and then we may be able to help you more effectively. On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:03:00 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On May 19, 2008 6:07:53 PM -0700 Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Many mailservers check that the HELO/EHLO response is a valid >> hostname. You can either configure your machine to use a valid >> hostname (consider dyndns.org or similar, if you like), or you can >> relay your email to something like your ISP's mailserver using >> relayhost parameter or the transport mechanism.... > > I'm not sure what the point of that is: > > Macintosh:~ pauls$ dig +short my.mywebsite.com > 208.87.33.150 > Macintosh:~ pauls$ dig +short -x 208.87.33.150 > my.mywebsite.com. > > The site resolves both forward and reverse. So valid hostname is not > the problem. It may not be the *real* site we are talking about though.