Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:28:53 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: jasonc@concentric.net (jason) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email setup problems Message-ID: <200105242228.SAA05038@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0e3ac$afce8040$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> from jason at "May 23, 2001 01:20:38 pm"
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Not sure what the problem is but here is a great website for email. www.moongroup.org Ian As told by, jason [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I am trying to setup sendmail so I can start getting mail on my bsd machine. > I followed the limited info in the online handbook but was unable to > successfully get it to send email. > > The only indication of the problem is the following error that I cant seem > to figure out > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2 > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2 > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2 > May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2 > > The errors appear at the same time every day. I have only one interface and > assigned 3 ip addresses to it. The addresses above are setup as aliases and > the 216.27.148.138 has a valid dns hostname assigned by my ISP as well as a > domain name I have pointed to it. 192.168.1.2 is my backup connection on > another ISP. > > I also am totally unable to get the machine to receive email from the > internet. I have the MX record to point to the main ip 216.27.148.136 but > any email sent to my domain is rejected and returned to sender after several > days. I need a better resource for setting up my bsd box to send/receive > email as well as running pop3 type daemon. The resources on the freebsd.org > web site are very limited and leaves me with more questions then when I > started. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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