From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 00:38:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2F116A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:38:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AF643D1F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:38:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-208-232.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.208.232]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0B0cnKu092397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:38:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41E32005.2040403@mac.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:38:29 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pwd8jmr22w@me.point.ne.jp References: <1105432346.638.31.camel@localhost> <41E314C0.1010502@mac.com> <1105435387.849.18.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1105435387.849.18.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.5 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:38:55 -0000 Srot BULL wrote: [ ... ] >>The simple answer is that the name your machine claims to be isn't registered >>in the DNS, which is normal for dynamic connections. You should either relay >>all email to the mailserver your ISP should have available, or you should >>configure your MTA to masquerade as a valid domain. >>The former is likely to better in terms of passing spam-sensitive mailers. > > Can I configure my system's sendmail to the above suggestion that you > wrote? Or am I stuck to using Evolution/Thunderbird with an SMTP setting > and not sendmail as my smtp server? [ ... ] Go to /etc/mail. Edit freebsd.cf (look for SMART_HOST), point it at your ISP's mail server. Do "make stop; make install; make start". You may have to twiddle some more, look at the Makefile there and: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html In particular, if your ISP requires your mailer to authenticate, you will need to twiddle the things called an access map for SMTP AUTH. :-) -- -Chuck