From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 7 4:44:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712D737B417 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 04:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16uB5u-000KbK-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 12:44:26 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 12:44:26 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Andrew Boothman Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Change to "why does my mail to FreeBSD.org bounce" FAQ Message-ID: <20020407114426.GA79039@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Andrew Boothman , doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020405155943.GA25988@submonkey.net> <20020405114723.767d28c9.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <20020405164306.GA35109@submonkey.net> <20020405120838.0c274492.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <20020406142437.GA52191@submonkey.net> <3CAF327E.6010001@cream.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CAF327E.6010001@cream.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:38:06PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > >Now it's a slightly fine grained point, maybe, but there's certainly a > >difference. It may be slightly easier to just say something like : > > > >"As required by RFC 2822, your announced hostname must resolve." > > I think you should mention the fact that it is the hostname announced in > the HELO command that is the problem in this case. > > I had exactly the same problem with mail being sent from one of my > systems because it was using an internal hostname in its HELO command. > The fix was simple enough, but I needed to know it was the HELO command > that caused the problem so that I could alter that part of my MTA's > config. I got that info from my maillog in the end, but it would be > helpful if it was in the FAQ. In that case, I think the patch I originally posted might be OK. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message