From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 20 21:56:55 2009 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 D0F6B106566C for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A358FC1D for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 215FBEB5A08; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0082345088; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:52 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p+0W6SD28j3K; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl35-130.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.162.130]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FA24503F; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3KLuoEw044457; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3KLumFF044452; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: anderson@hoover.stanford.edu References: <49EBF3AE.5020802@sbcglobal.net> <49EC1C44.6080507@a1poweruser.com> <49EC2060.1020001@sbcglobal.net> <200904201428.42779.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <49ECD6E1.4080900@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:56:47 +0300 In-Reply-To: <49ECD6E1.4080900@sbcglobal.net> (Annelise Anderson's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:13 -0700") Message-ID: <8763gzdm5c.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Fbsd1 , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail problem 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: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:56:56 -0000 On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:13 -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote: >> >>>Fbsd1 wrote: >>> >>>>Annelise Anderson wrote: >>>> >>>>>I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message: >>>>> >>>>>fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address >>>>>owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org does not resolve >> >> >> The question isn't whether you can resolve it, but whether your >> mailserver can. Check your mail log for the smtp server. If the >> mailserver is chrooted, check for $chrootdir/etc/resolv.conf. > > I don't know how to read sendmail.st, but the mailserver (sendmail) is > not chrooted. > > In /var/log/messages I get this, but it doesn't seem to relate to > anything in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: > > Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1: unknown configuration line "7A > " > Apr 18 02:56:07 andrsn sm-mta[24419]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 2: invalid argument to V line: "E > RSIONID(\001FreeBSD: s" Hmmm, it looks like your `sendmail.cf' has been overwritten by an unexpanded copy of `sendmail.mc'. What do you see with: % diff -u /etc/mail/freebsd.mc /etc/mail/sendmail.cf If this shows only a few lines of local changes, then you should keep a backup copy of the current `/etc/mail/sendmail.cf' file and then try to macro-expand it with the `/etc/mail/Makefile' machinery to generate a real `sendmail.cf' file...