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To: "Joshua Lokken" <inspector.us@omicnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Reverse name lookups
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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Date: 17 Mar 2003 16:50:45 -0500
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"Joshua Lokken" <inspector.us@omicnet.com> writes:

> so, for example, if I send mail to questions from my 'main' account at
> home, it gets
> returned, because it doesn't recognize jolok@joloxbox.joshualokken.com
> as a valid
> host.

Then you need to configure your MTA to know itself as joshualokken.com
(either that, or get joloxbox.joshualokken.com to forward-resolve).
With sendmail, you'd use the "masquerade" capability for the former.

> I would like to be able to maintain a mailserver for
> *@joshualokken.com, and have
> www.joshualokken.com resolve correctly.  Now I'm getting 'unable to
> connect with
> remote host' when I point to www.joshualokken.com, and like I said,
> returned email
> from home.

I can't parse this out.  What does the "www" hostname have to do with
the situation?

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