From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 17:16:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF19214C21 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA13891; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:44:56 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA75928; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:44:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:44:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu Cc: Michael Hill , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours (fwd) Message-ID: <19990720094447.P72885@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990719152426.53394@qadas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:59:30PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 16:59:30 -0500, joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Michael Hill wrote: > >> I am trying to send a message asking for help with a kernel error message >> I'm seeing. Unfortunately, your domain seems to be refusing my contact >> because it's originating from a machine whose DNS information is not >> published outside our corporate firewall. How am I supposed to get mail >> through if my sendmail is configured to contact the destination address >> directly, and your sendmail is refusing it because it can't do a reverse >> lookup? Note: I am sending this from an external ISP to get it through; >> however, please reply to my original address as seen in the line below. > > I had the same problem and corrected by adding the following to my > /etc/sendmail.cf file: > > Djteam7.cba.ualr.edu > > Of course you would need to put whatever the hostname of your mail server > is there then restart sendmail. This won't help if you're behind a firewall. And, of course, it's not immediately obvious what Michael would have to do. 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