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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:05:12 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail from standalone workstation (no SMTP)
Message-ID:  <20000224140512.B15554@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002241301350.20570-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:28:51PM %2B0000
References:  <20000224001835.B12885@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002241301350.20570-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:28:51PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> Well, i understand then sendmail works the same on all of them, but i
> thought maybe a config difference would cause the problem.  For
> example, Linux calls the machine localhost.localdomain.  BSD calls it
> myname.my.domain  Here it is.....

It should not really make a difference what fake name the OS
uses. The mailserver you sent mail to in the example below does not
look like it would accept mail from any made-up domain.

Just use a valid domain name for the machine (recommended) or
masquerade as a valid domain.

> te: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:58:55 -0500 (EST)
>       
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> To: jcm
> Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
> Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
> 
> [-- Attachment #1 --]
> [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --]
> 
> The original message was received at Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:57:30
> -0500 (EST)
> from jcm@localhost
> 
>  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors
>  -----
>  jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
> 
>     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>     ... while talking to mailrouter1.mcc.ac.uk.:
>     >>> DATA
>     <<< 550 rejected: cannot route to sender
>     <jcm@myname.my.domain>
>     554 jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org... Service unavailable
> ttachment #2 --]
>    
>   [-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
> 
>    Reporting-MTA: dns; myname.my.domain       
>    Arrival-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:57:30 -0500 (EST)
> 
>    Final-Recipient: RFC822; jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
>    Action: failed                                      
>    Status: 5.2.0
>    Remote-MTA: DNS; mailrouter1.mcc.ac.uk
> 	
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 rejected: cannot route to sender
> +iler: Mutt 1.0.1i
> 		     
> 
>      test
> 
>      <jcm@myname.my.domain>
> 	Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:58:55 -0500 (EST)
> 	 
> 
>  [-- Attachment #3 --]
>  [-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --]
> 
> 	 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:57:29 -0500
> 	 From: J McKitrick <jcm@myname.my.domain>
> 	 To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org                       
> 	 Subject: test
> 
> 
> 
> -=> jm <=-
> Please CC me on all replies
> -------------------------------------------------------
> "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have
> burned so very, very brightly." 

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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