From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 11:12:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5681065690 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CC28FC19 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:12:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.20]) by QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Sxof1a00A0SCNGk54zCx5R; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:12:57 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SzCw1a0012P6wsM3VzCwZV; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:12:57 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=PtD21kIN02YA:10 a=cIMdafgjkmcA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=7M2cRT35spZpF1nr8XYA:9 a=bxY-QUbyKbHB-vJlbHgA:7 a=WQAWzIeYwp814T-VMJ4s5-PqFYoA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ECE1FC9419; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:12:55 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Da Rock Message-ID: <20081015111255.GB75598@icarus.home.lan> References: <1224030267.3458.2.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224030267.3458.2.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing - my emails don't seem to be getting through X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:12:58 -0000 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24:27AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I've been getting a lot of rejections: Helo command rejected: Host not > found (in reply to RCPT TO command). So now I'm running a test to see if > this one will get through. I do not know why on earth you are testing this crap using a public mailing list, rather than mailing an account at Gmail or Hotmail or some such. Sorry to sound sour about it, but it's rude. The error you're receiving would be because your mail server during the SMTP handshake is saying "HELO i.am.bob" and the remote SMTP server attempts to resolve i.am.bob but cannot. By "i.am.bob", I *literally* mean "i.am.bob". If you're forwarding mail around on a private network on your LAN, your computer probably thinks its hostname is "myfreebsdbox.my.lan", which isn't a publicly-resolvable hostname. There are ways in sendmail and postfix to solve this problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |