From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 14:34:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B4537B63E for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hardy.inty.net (hardy.inty.net [195.224.93.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3475E43F85 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Chris@furrie.net) Received: from inty.furrie.net (furrie.net [213.208.115.165]) (authenticated) by hardy.inty.net (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3BLYMr01405; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:34:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from freya ([10.6.8.48]) (authenticated bits=0) by inty.furrie.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h3BLYK1K014840; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:34:20 +0100 (BST) From: "Chris Phillips" To: "'Konrad Scorciapino'" , Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: <002101c30072$1c958aa0$3008060a@furrie.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <200304111343.26510.konrad@scorciapino.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Sender-IP: 10.6.8.48 X-INT-DeliveryDone: h3BLYK1K014840 X-suppress-rcpt-virus-notify: yes X-Skip-Virus-Check: yes X-Virus-Checked: 42629 Subject: RE: Problems with the list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:34:29 -0000 -----Original Message----- Hi, I am getting a lot of error messages when sending emails to the mailing list. Here are some exemples: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: Date: Yesterday 22:00:25 ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:46:27 -0300 from 200-161-254-212.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.161.254.212] ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx1.freebsd.org.: >>> RCPT To: <<< 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [216.12.211.199] ... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [216.12.211.199] Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old Is this a problem with my mail service or with the list? *** Hello there, ** Your mail service does not have a PTR record ** I searched on Google, using the error that you were given: "450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname" & the third link I got, gave me the answer you need. http://www.velocity.net/fixmail/ I know that velocity are unlikely to be the providers of your email service but this page does explain pretty well what the problem is. The FreeBSD mailing-lists perform a reversed DNS check on incoming mail connections, dropping them if it can't resolve the mailservers IP to a name, or obtains a result that doesn't figure. HTH Chris Phillips http://www.furrie.net/ intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com)