Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:32:54 -0500 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>, jmb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mail to list Message-ID: <20010225023254.A50476@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <HNEIIPBNPCOCPHAOFFFKOEMKCBAA.dominic_marks@btinternet.com> References: <20010217230238.21730.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> <HNEIIPBNPCOCPHAOFFFKOEMKCBAA.dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
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so, Dominic Marks shared this... > I can't mail to the list from my ISP due to security settings on > hub.freebsd.org (FreeBSD mail server) and also my ISPs poor configuration. I > can use a hotmail account though to post ok. > > I read my post through my ISP and post from hotmail, sometimes I cc: to the > group and other times not. > > Dominic Marks > >> one fine day, in my misery, i wrote... >> i have tried sending a message on feb 15, 16, and 17 -- and none of >> the 3 (one real, 2d copy, 3d test) messages seem to appear either in >> my mail, or in the list archives on yahoo, and google. >> >> otherwise i can send and receive mail to/from others okay; >> "traceroute mail.freebsd.org" succeeds. what could be the problem? well, after doing this, trying that, crying for help everywhere, it seems that the problem was w/ the canonical domain name, $j, (used to be 'moo.holy.cow') in sendmail.conf. after changing to resolvable name, mail seem to go through and send from freebsd-questiions@freebsd.org again. so, the reason that mail wasn't being received by hub.freebsd.org as the sender's domain name was not being resolved... which i found out after trying to send/receive from another mail account. question: could that be the reason that i did not receive any error messages, unlike others, about DNS problem from hub.freebsd.org since smtp server address/name was valid/resolveable? another question: but why would/should sendmail reject mail if the address in FROM: is vaild? anybody out there offers domains w/ tld as .cow? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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