From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 0:16:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A579937B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 00:16:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id JAA28969; Mon, 28 May 2001 09:24:30 +0200 Message-ID: <3B11FBD2.8114995E@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:18:42 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sendmail Question References: <20010526222043.I23922-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Christopher W. Aiken" schrieb: > > On occasion email that I send out gets bounced back because my > domain name ( bigdaddy.localdomain ) is unknown. I added: > > Djicubed.com > > to my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file, where "icubed.com" is my ISP. > I then restarted my sendmail daemon. All is OK now except for > the fact I can no longer send email to anyone else at "icubed.com". > I guess sendmail thinks these people are on my local system. > > Is there any way of getting around this problem? I don't believe > that I should have to add the above line for email sent to some > people, and then remove it so I can send email to others. Either have sendmail forward all of it's mail to a smarthost (Dw feature), or get a real domain name. The mail is blocked because spammers use the mechanism you used to hide their mailer. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message