Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:36:14 -0700 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: send-pr issues probably related to sendmail misconfiguration Message-ID: <98B4B296-85C5-11D7-A664-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F35nsNm4b1a2LO0000e8df@hotmail.com>
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On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Evan Dower wrote:
> When I try to send-pr, I get:
>
> May 9 02:28:09 lojak sm-mta[21955]: h499RhZE021953:
> to=<FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>,
> ctladdr=<evantd@lojak.washington.edu> (1001/1001), delay=00:00:26,
> xdelay=00:00:25, mailer=esmtp, pri=30460, relay=mx1.freebsd.org.
> [216.136.204.125], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450
> <lojak.washington.edu>: Helo command rejected: Host not found
>
> I can 'mail evantd@hotmail.com' just fine, but I suspect that the
> hotmail servers don't resolve hostnames. lojak.washington.edu is NOT
> an FQDN, but it's a lot nicer looking. I suppose I could try changing
> whatever needs to be changed to my FQDN, but what exactly would need
> to be changed? Is that even what seems to be necessary?
The FreeBSD mail server will bounce anything that doesn't resolve. If
UW gave you a smart host (a.k.a., SMTP server) on their network to use,
configure sendmail to use it.
- jim
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