From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 13:15: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F7281547E for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 30243 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1999 20:14:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO signup) (195.166.144.253) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 10 Aug 1999 20:14:48 -0000 From: "Ghulam Dastgir" To: Subject: DNS/Sendmail problems Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:09:26 -0700 Message-ID: <01bee3b7$aecddd40$LocalHost@signup> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Funny one this. There I am happily sending and receiving email then one day all of a sudden I can't send email. The problem, my ISP's mail server complains that it doesn't recognise the domain being given when I send my email out. Apparently sendmail says my full email name is: banta@voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk, I know this is nonsense because voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk is the hostname of my FBSD box (shortname voyager) and my domain is ghulam.force9.co.uk. So why is sendmail doing this? I've checked my /etc/sendmail.cf file and made sure that I am masquerading as my proper domain name i.e. ghulam.force9.co.uk. Because sendmail by default would otherwise use the full name of the local system - voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk. So despite me masquerading sendmail still seems to revert to the system name. I've even set that thing in /etc/sendmail.cf (whose name I forget) that forces sendmail to use the proper domain name - but no luck. By the way, I've checked my DNS files and they're all OK. Whad d'ya reckon cowboys? Cheers, Ghulam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message