Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:12:46 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <doug@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending to the list Message-ID: <E4CF1388-D431-418C-9F93-FE62200FDC6D@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <10712da3-6403-78ac-6566-1167cd06235d@FreeBSD.org> References: <D0365CCE-648D-4F33-95CE-183399664B1C@lafn.org> <10712da3-6403-78ac-6566-1167cd06235d@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 5 February 2017, at 10:51, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> = wrote: >=20 > On 05/02/2017 17:52, Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have been having to go through a special process to send to any of >> the FreeBSD lists. Otherwise, the servers reject my emails with: >>=20 >> 6F637114C308 3078 Sun Feb 5 11:03:33 = doug@mail.sermon-archive.info >> (host mx1.freebsd.org[8.8.178.115] said: 450 4.7.1 = <mail.localdomain>: Helo command rejected: Host not found (in reply to = RCPT TO command)) >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>=20 >> Searching Google finds that it appears the mail server is not liking >> the reverse DNS entry which was a valid complaint. It took awhile to >> get that resolved as the transfer from Verizon FIOS to Frontier was >> not exactly transparent. However, that is now corrected and I still >> get the same response. How do I find out what the problem is? I >> suspect this is not the right list, but I couldn't see any other that >> might be more appropriate. >=20 > Your mail server is identifying itself as 'mail.localdomain' during = the > EHLO or HELO step of the SMTP transaction. That's what the FreeBSD = mail > servers are objecting to since they can't look up an IP number for > 'mail.localdomain' and then check that IP number reverses to the same = name. >=20 > Check the configuration of your MTA. You want to make it call itself > 'sermon-archive.info' when it introduces itself to the MTA it's = sending > to. How to do that depends on what MTA software you're using, but in > sendmail(8), it's the $j macro that needs to be set appropriately. > Something like >=20 > define(`confHELO_NAME', `sermon-archive.info')dnl >=20 > in your sendmail.mc file. >=20 > Cheers, >=20 > Matthew Server is postfix and I believe I have corrected that now. Thanks.
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