Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:44:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu Cc: Michael Hill <msh@qadas.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours (fwd) Message-ID: <19990720094447.P72885@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191654280.1235-100000@njal.ualr.edu>; from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:59:30PM -0500 References: <19990719152426.53394@qadas.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191654280.1235-100000@njal.ualr.edu>
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On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 16:59:30 -0500, joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Michael Hill wrote: > >> I am trying to send a message asking for help with a kernel error message >> I'm seeing. Unfortunately, your domain seems to be refusing my contact >> because it's originating from a machine whose DNS information is not >> published outside our corporate firewall. How am I supposed to get mail >> through if my sendmail is configured to contact the destination address >> directly, and your sendmail is refusing it because it can't do a reverse >> lookup? Note: I am sending this from an external ISP to get it through; >> however, please reply to my original address as seen in the line below. > > I had the same problem and corrected by adding the following to my > /etc/sendmail.cf file: > > Djteam7.cba.ualr.edu > > Of course you would need to put whatever the hostname of your mail server > is there then restart sendmail. This won't help if you're behind a firewall. And, of course, it's not immediately obvious what Michael would have to do. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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