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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 13:20:38 -0400
From:      "jason" <jasonc@concentric.net>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   email setup problems
Message-ID:  <000b01c0e3ac$afce8040$89941bd8@speakeasy.net>

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I am trying to setup sendmail so I can start getting mail on my bsd machine.
I followed the limited info in the online handbook but was unable to
successfully get it to send email.

The only indication of the problem is the following error that I cant seem
to figure out
May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2
May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2
May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(216.27.148.138) failed: 2
May 23 01:59:04 mail sendmail[42129]:gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.2) failed: 2

The errors appear at the same time every day.  I have only one interface and
assigned 3 ip addresses to it.  The addresses above are setup as aliases and
the 216.27.148.138 has a valid dns hostname assigned by my ISP as well as a
domain name I have pointed to it.  192.168.1.2 is my backup connection on
another ISP.

I also am totally unable to get the machine to receive email from the
internet.  I have the MX record to point to the main ip 216.27.148.136 but
any email sent to my domain is rejected and returned to sender after several
days.  I need a better resource for setting up my bsd box to send/receive
email as well as running pop3 type daemon.  The resources on the freebsd.org
web site are very limited and leaves me with more questions then when I
started.


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