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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:32:45 -0500
From:      Anthony Fox <adf5j@cs.virginia.edu>
To:        Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail, nonexistent domain, again
Message-ID:  <20001109063245.A11150@misty.cs.virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A0AD0D5.A0F663C2@planetwe.com>; from drew@planetwe.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:29:09AM -0600
References:  <20001109062245.A11122@misty.cs.virginia.edu> <3A0AD0D5.A0F663C2@planetwe.com>

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:29:09AM -0600, Drew Sanford wrote:
> >    #----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > #... while talking to mail.virginia.edu.:
> > #>>> MAIL From:<ant@thewall.mydomain.tld>
> > #<<< 501 Sender domain must exist
> > #Reporting-MTA: dns; thewall.mydomain.tld
> > #From: Anthony Fox <ant@mydomain.tld>
> 
> Thats all you need to know:
> 
> root@db(~)# nslookup mydomain.tld
> Server:  admin.planetwe.com
> Address:  10.0.0.1
> 
> *** admin.planetwe.com can't find mydomain.tld: Non-existent host/domain
> 
> obviously mydomain.tld does not exist, and no mail relay host in its
> right circut is going accept mail from a domain that doesn't exist. 

right, mydomain.tld was just an example.  the real emails had my domain
in there.  :)  i am sorry for the confusion.

-anthony.


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