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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:32:54 -0500
From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
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Cc: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>, jmb@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: can't mail to list
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so, Dominic Marks shared this...
> I can't mail to the list from my ISP due to security settings on
> hub.freebsd.org (FreeBSD mail server) and also my ISPs poor configuration. I
> can use a hotmail account though to post ok.
> 
> I read my post through my ISP and post from hotmail, sometimes I cc: to the
> group and other times not.
> 
> Dominic Marks
> 
>> one fine day, in my misery, i wrote... 
>> i have tried sending a message on feb 15, 16, and 17 -- and none of
>> the 3 (one real, 2d copy, 3d test) messages seem to appear either in
>> my mail, or in the list archives on yahoo, and google.
>> 
>> otherwise i can send and receive mail to/from others okay;
>> "traceroute mail.freebsd.org" succeeds. what could be the problem?


well, after doing this, trying that, crying for help everywhere, it seems that 
the problem was w/ the canonical domain name, $j, (used to be 'moo.holy.cow') 
in sendmail.conf. after changing to resolvable name, mail seem to go through
and send from freebsd-questiions@freebsd.org again. so, the reason that mail
wasn't being received by hub.freebsd.org as the sender's domain name was
not being resolved... which i found out after trying to send/receive from
another mail account.

question:  could that be the reason that i did not receive any error messages, 
unlike others, about DNS problem from hub.freebsd.org since smtp server 
address/name was valid/resolveable?

another question:  but why would/should sendmail reject mail if the address 
in FROM: is vaild?


anybody out there offers domains w/ tld as .cow?

- parv



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