Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:43:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "David B. Aas" <dave@ciminot.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Sender domain must exist" error Message-ID: <19990821114334.O14964@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001f01beeb1c$ad953100$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com>; from David B. Aas on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 10:00:00AM -0500 References: <001f01beeb1c$ad953100$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com>
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On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 10:00:00 -0500, David B. Aas wrote: > I am getting an error message from POP3 clients when emial is sent. Email is > received OK, but I cannont send. > > I am running Sendmail on FreeBSD 3.2. Sendmail is set up, and POP3 is > enabled. My users have valid Unix usernames and passwords. My server name is > gateway.townandcountry.org and my domain name is townandcountry.org. > > My users can connect and receive email. When email is sent, they get an > error message on the POP3 client something like this: > > "The message could not be send because the server rejected the sender's > email address. The sender's email address was ....Server Response "501 > gateway.townandcountry.org ... sender domain must exist" > > On the server console, an error message shows up "Sendmail ... > ruleset=check_mail ...Reject=501 gateway.townandcountry.org sender domain > must exist." > > I double-checked my sendmail.cf file. I have set up a D and a DM record. DNS > is running and appears to be working OK. > > What am I missing? any help would be appreciated. Reverse delegation? Do you have PTR records for all your machines? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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