Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:38:29 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unexpected behaviour from pdksh. Comments? Message-ID: <199805111438.PAA20776@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 18:40:13 PDT." <199805110140.SAA03046@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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> > On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 20:58:08 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I seem to be unable to send mail to brian@Awfulhak.org... I'm not
> > > sure why.
> > >
> > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > > <brian@Awfulhak.org>
> > >
> > > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > ... while talking to awfulhak.org.:
> > >>>> RCPT To:<brian@Awfulhak.org>
> > > <<< 550 <brian@Awfulhak.org>... we do not relay jwd@unx.sas.com
> > > 550 <brian@Awfulhak.org>... User unknown
> >
> > You are trying to send mail via a system that doesn't want to do it
> > for you. You've left out the name of the system in the message above,
> > but I'd recommend that you stop trying to use it.
>
> Actually, no. This is attepting to deliver to the destination system,
> and if you look at the transcript, it tells you who the system is.
[.....]
As Greg pointed out, you're talking to my A record, not my MX :-/
> --
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> \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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