From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (ares.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.137.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A5A37B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:07:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:root@misty.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.137.140]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.9.2/8.9.2/UVACS-2000040300) with ESMTP id LAA00245 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:06:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from adf5j@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.2) id GAA11098 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:07:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 06:07:22 -0500 From: Anthony Fox To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: sendmail, nonexistent domain Message-ID: <20001109060722.A11095@misty.cs.virginia.edu> Reply-To: Anthony Fox Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having problems sending mail from my server BSD box. I receive a MAILER DAEMON reply when I try to send a message with the following contents: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Nov 9 10:53:48 2000 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:48 GMT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: ant Subject: Returned mail: Data format error [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] The original message was received at Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:47 GMT from ant@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- adf5j@virginia.edu ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.virginia.edu.: >>> MAIL From: <<< 501 Sender domain must exist 501 adf5j@virginia.edu... Data format error [-- Attachment #2 --] [-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --] Reporting-MTA: dns; thewall.mydomain.tld Arrival-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:47 GMT Final-Recipient: RFC822; adf5j@virginia.edu Action: failed Status: 5.5.2 Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.virginia.edu Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 Sender domain must exist Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:48 GMT [-- Attachment #3 --] [-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.5K --] Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:53:16 +0000 From: Anthony Fox To: adf5j@virginia.edu Subject: tryingas asdf;lkj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think that the problem is that the hostname.domainname doesn't exist. My domain name exists and is registered. I use mutt as my mail client, so I have tried setting the headers to be me@mydomain.tld rather than me@myhostname.mydomainname.tld, but this didn't seem to do anything. I feel like this should be a simple problem to fix, but I haven't managed to find the solution anywhere. Does anyone know a quick solution to this? TIA, -anthony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message