From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 11:44:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cpio.nildram.co.uk (195-149-37-133.dial.nildram.co.uk [195.149.37.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA8237B404 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.yggdrasil (localhost.yggdrasil [127.0.0.1]) by odin.yggdrasil (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1PJfst39193 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:41:55 GMT (envelope-from tim@cpio.nildram.co.uk) Message-Id: <200202251941.g1PJfst39193@odin.yggdrasil> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:41:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Tim Preece Subject: Re: problem sending mails to mailing lists To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020225120657.A10241@grimoire.chen.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 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