From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 11 07:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17963 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 07:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17946 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 07:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20776; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:38:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805111438.PAA20776@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Mike Smith cc: Greg Lehey , "John W. DeBoskey" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unexpected behaviour from pdksh. Comments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 18:40:13 PDT." <199805110140.SAA03046@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:38:29 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 ----- > > > > > > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > > ... while talking to awfulhak.org.: > > >>>> RCPT To: > > > <<< 550 ... we do not relay jwd@unx.sas.com > > > 550 ... 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 :-/ > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message