Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:41:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Tim Preece <tim@cpio.nildram.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem sending mails to mailing lists Message-ID: <200202251941.g1PJfst39193@odin.yggdrasil> In-Reply-To: <20020225120657.A10241@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On 25 Feb, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:23:17PM +0000, Tim Preece wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am having problems sending mail from my computer to any of the mailing lists. I am using sendmail on 4.5-stable i386. >> >> The error I am getting back from sendmail is: >> >> Deferred: 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found. > > FreeBSD's mailserver is *very* picky. If your host announces itself as > xxx.domain.com in the initial HELO greeting, it will attempt a lookup > of the given host. If that fails, it will terminate the conversation. > Configure your MTA to announce itself as it should be seen from the > outside, and not to use it's internal fqdn. > > Under sendmail you can add this to your mail-server's mc file: > > define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `domain.com')dnl > Thanks, Another question, I have a sendmail.cf and a freebsd.cf in my mail directory, is the sendmail.cf redundant ? Thanks again. Tim Preece. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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