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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 09:18:42 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail Question
Message-ID:  <3B11FBD2.8114995E@i-clue.de>
References:  <20010526222043.I23922-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>

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"Christopher W. Aiken" schrieb:
> 
> On occasion email that I send out gets bounced back because my
> domain name ( bigdaddy.localdomain ) is unknown.  I added:
> 
> Djicubed.com
> 
> to my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file, where "icubed.com" is my ISP.
> I then restarted my sendmail daemon.  All is OK now except for
> the fact I can no longer send email to anyone else at "icubed.com".
> I guess sendmail thinks these people are on my local system.
> 
> Is there any way of getting around this problem?  I don't believe
> that I should have to add the above line for email sent to some
> people, and then remove it so I can send email to others.

Either have sendmail forward all of it's mail to a smarthost (Dw
feature), or get a real domain name. The mail is blocked because
spammers use the mechanism you used to hide their mailer.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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