Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:12:24 GMT From: n9842643@cc.wwu.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: pop3/smtp question Message-ID: <364168dd.187257@mail.halcyon.com>
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Hello. I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and I'm just trying to set up email for my POP3 account. The POP3 account has been issued by my provider (in my case Western Washington University, i'm a college student), and has obviously been set up for Windows95 users only. When I set up my PPP configuration files, I simply used the name inferno.cc.wwu.edu for the name of my computer, where the inferno somthing I just made up and the cc.wwu.edu was the domain name on my email address. I was able to get POP3 to grab my messages only if I used the popclient command and I was logged in as a user resembling my mail server login name (i.e. I had to set up a n9842643 account on my system to get mail from the smtp server since it wouldn't work under the root username). When I try to send mail, however, I get the mail back with the message below when I tried to mail napalm@halcyon.com I'm not sure if I should rename my domain name in all my namedb config files or i'm just missing somthing. Any help would be extremely appreciated since I am very sick of using this stupid windows mail program. Can anyone help? >From n9842643@inferno.cc.wwu.edu Thu Nov 5 00:51:58 1998 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:49:38 -0800 (PST) From: pop3 user <n9842643@inferno.cc.wwu.edu> To: Charlie ROOT <root@inferno.cc.wwu.edu> Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:35:03 -0800 (PST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@inferno.cc.wwu.edu> To: n9842643@inferno.cc.wwu.edu Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable The original message was received at Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:35:00 -0800 (PST) from n9842643@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <napalm@halcyon.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to smtp7.nwnexus.com.: >>> MAIL From:<n9842643@inferno.cc.wwu.edu> SIZE=276 <<< 551 unresolvable host name inferno.cc.wwu.edu, see RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18. 554 <napalm@halcyon.com>... Service unavailable [ Part 2: "" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; inferno.cc.wwu.edu Arrival-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:35:00 -0800 (PST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; napalm@halcyon.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: DNS; smtp7.nwnexus.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 551 unresolvable host name inferno.cc.wwu.edu, see RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18. Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:35:03 -0800 (PST) [ Part 3: "" ] Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:35:00 -0800 (PST) From: pop3 user <n9842643@inferno.cc.wwu.edu> To: napalm@halcyon.com Subject: whord test message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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