Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:10:48 -0500 (CDT) From: <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Joe <joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail not accepted by freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907181823230.864-100000@njal.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9907191006150.29920-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Joe wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > I having trouble sending email freebsd.org from my sendmail > > server. I get the following from my /var/log/maillog file: > > > > Jul 18 09:54:19 team7 sendmail[1613]: JAA01543: > > to=<majordomo@freebsd.org>, ctladdr=<joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> (1000/1000), > > delay=00:35:42, xdelay=00:00:40, mailer=esmtp, relay=hub.freebsd.org. > > [204.216.27.18], stat=Deferred: 450 <team7.cba>: Host not found > > > > After checking the mailing list archives the only thing I could was > > something about reverse lookups, so I did the following: > > > > > > team7# nslookup team7.cba freebsd.org > > Server: hub.FreeBSD.ORG > > Address: 204.216.27.18 > > > > Non-authoritative answer: > > Name: team7.cba.ualr.edu > > Address: 144.167.120.24 > > > > > > It appears that my host is being seen by freebsd.org but it refuses my > > emails from there. At first I thought that there was something wrong with > > mail server since I'm running current but freebsd.org is the only place > > refusing my emails. Anybody else having the same problem? > > team.cba is *NOT* visibile from the 'Net, and hence NOT visible from > freebsd.org. The reason why *you* can see it is because your default > domain has been set to ualr.edu, which gets appended to team7.cba when > you run nslookup. > > What you need to do is to tweak your sendmail.cf to set your domain > name to team7.cba.ualr.edu. IIRC, you do this with: > > Djteam7.cba.ualr.edu > > somewhere in /etc/sendmail.cf > > Jonathan Chen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do not take life too seriously. > You will never get out of it alive. > The tweak to /etc/sendmail.cf fixed the problem. But I never had to do this before and this problem just occurred recently. Could this have resulted from a recent make world or did FreeBSD.ORG change something on their end? Thanks for the help. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.10.9907181823230.864-100000>