Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:01:38 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'McConnell' <alan17@wizard.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: alan17@saruman.wizard.net Subject: RE: Inability to subscribe to this E-list Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AD0@site2s1>
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Can't tall you how to do it in qmail, but this problem is real easy to fix in sendmail. Maybe you have the equivalent options. You need to either #1, have you qmail report itself as a real hostname, or have your mail relayed through your ISP's smtp server. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: McConnell [SMTP:alan17@wizard.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 4:57 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: alan17@saruman.wizard.net > Subject: Inability to subscribe to this E-list > > > I run Linux on my home machine. It has a name which has not been > registered anywhere. Thanks to qmail, the "From: " line of mail > from me appears as "alan17@wizard.net", which is the mailbox > given me by my ISP. > > When I try to send E-mail to your E-list, it is rejected. The > message reported back to my machine, according to qmail, is: > "Connected to 204.216.27.18 but my name was rejected. Host not > found". > > Evidently, your machine, hub.FreeBSD.ORG, is extremely severe about > what E-mail it accepts. Must that be so? I am, and have been, > subscribed to many E-lists, and yours is the only list which gives > this problem. > > I hope that I can, perhaps, be manually subscribed, since, as a > new FreeBSD user, your list will be of great help to me. > > Sincerely, > > Alan McConnell > > P.S. To get this to you, I have had to telnet into my wizard.net > shell account, and re-edit this message, forwarded back up to wizard. > This is ridiculous! > > -- > Alan McConnell Craftily written on line! Note that Alan has > Pixel Analysis a new ISP! Run Linux if at all possible! Shun > alan17@wizard.net the frumious bandersnatch! Thimk! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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