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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:52:30 -0500
From:      Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Sendmail configuration problems
Message-ID:  <20011230145230.GM36601@keyslapper.org>

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Hey folks.  Kinda an  urgent one,  so please  forgive the  slightly OT
question. In my  experience, questions are answered  more quickly here
(and often more accurately) than on many of the other forums available
for Sendmail.

I  am running  sendmail  on  FreeBSD 4.4  RELEASE,  and have  suddenly
started getting messages in my maillog to the following effect:

Dec 30 09:31:28 keyslapper sendmail[69636]: fBU1CSm67514: to=<webmaster@myserver.net>, delay=13:19:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3031024, relay=smtp.ne.mediaone.net. [24.147.1.144], dsn=4.1.8, stat=Deferred: 451 4.1.8 <webmaster@myserver.net>... Domain of sender address webmaster@myserver.net does not resolve
Dec 30 09:31:28 keyslapper sendmail[69636]: fBU1CSm67514: to=<administrator@ndmls01.mediaone.net>, delay=13:19:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3031024, relay=smtp.ne.mediaone.net. [24.147.1.144], dsn=4.1.8, stat=Deferred: 451 4.1.8 <webmaster@myserver.net>... Domain of sender address webmaster@myserver.net does not resolve

Sorry about the long lines.

Anyway, I have an  idea where these are coming from,  and they carry a
potential financial impact if I can't recieve them. They are automatic
mailings so  simply emailing  someone to fix  things may  not suffice.
Unfortunately the  financial impact will  be mine,  so I'm not  sure I
want to  take any unnecessary  chances. The  messages are going  to be
deferred for another day or two (I think) then they will be dropped.

I have tried to configure sendmail to accept unresolvable domains with
the following:

define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`M=u')
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')
FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')

These  were gathered  from reading  the sendmail  README. They  should
direct Sendmail  to accept  mail from  unresolvable domains,  and mail
from unqualified senders, but they don't seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Lou
-- 
Louis LeBlanc               leblanc@keyslapper.org
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http://www.keyslapper.org                     ԿԬ

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