Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:23:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS/Sendmail problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908101322330.79312-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bee3b7$aecddd40$LocalHost@signup>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > Funny one this. > > There I am happily sending and receiving email then one day all of a sudden > I can't send email. The problem, my ISP's mail server complains that it > doesn't recognise the domain being given when I send my email out. > > Apparently sendmail says my full email name is: > banta@voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk, I know this is nonsense because > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk is the hostname of my FBSD box (shortname > voyager) and my domain is ghulam.force9.co.uk. > So why is sendmail doing this? It's operating as advertised. > I've checked my /etc/sendmail.cf file and made sure that I am masquerading > as my proper domain name i.e. ghulam.force9.co.uk. Because sendmail by > default would otherwise use the full name of the local system - > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk. It doesn't necessarily change the envelope address. See the Sendmail FAQ. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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