Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:04:35 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie Root <root@vic.cioe.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: default sendmail.cf broken? Message-ID: <199601161704.MAA02032@vic.cioe.com>
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I get the following results when attempting to send an email message to certain systems: test@vm.cc.purdue.edu... Connecting to vm.cc.purdue.edu. via smtp... 220 VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU running IBM VM SMTP V2R3 on Tue, 16 Jan 96 12:05:33 EST >>> HELO vic.cioe.com 250 VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU is my domain name. >>> MAIL From:<root> 501 Syntax Error. Missing Domain Name test@vm.cc.purdue.edu... Data format error root... Connecting to local... root... Sent MAILER-DAEMON... Closing connection to vm.cc.purdue.edu. >>> QUIT 221 VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU running IBM VM SMTP V2R3 closing connection Null message body; hope that's ok It would seem (after a bit of poking around) that the default sendmail.cf file is invalid. It does not fully qualify the sender when delivering mail (this can easily be seen by sending yourself a message from one system to another and examining the From line, or using 'mail -v'). Not being a sendmail guru.. and wanting to sendmail to these systems... What's the quick&dirty work around to get the sender to fully qualify? Also... is this going to be fixed in future releases? -Steve
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