Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:54:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Daniel Auman <auman@198.234.65.248> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail on 3.1-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990309145053.6557F-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <1999Mar09.144141.S5000.9@aumanstate.oh.us>
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Daniel Auman wrote: > I don't want to bother you but, I'm just at a loss. I'm quite new at this. > If I can get FreeBSD to just send Internet e-mail submitted by a > SMTP client I can justify its existence in our work place and buy > work time for me to continue to learn. > > > I have got my connection over a T1 line correct and it would sure > appears I've got DNS Client service going: nslookup does work! > > > FreeBSD machine's IP address 198.234.65.226 and I would like > others on the same subnet to connect and send Internet e-mail with > addresses <italic>user</italic>@psa2.age.state.oh.us. > > > If I fudge a known domain name "state.oh.us" in the sender mail > address I get a "no relaying" error. If I use "psa2.age.state.oh.us" I > get "Sender domain not found". "psa2.age.state.oh.us" will be a DNS > entry in the state of Ohio's DNS servers and point to another machine > handling incoming mail. In fact, the e-mail address I provided should-- > when our request is handled--convert to psa2.age.state.oh.us. You have two choices. 1) Become a sendmail guru and configure sendmail to run without proper DNS. It can be done. It is not pretty. 2) Wait until your domain's DNS zone files (both forward and reverse) have been updated. Then, everything will probably *just work* Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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