Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 02:20:40 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, cbooth@onyx.interactive.net Subject: Ooops! Apologies to All Re: Strange Bounced email Message-ID: <199710220620.CAA01793@ithaca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 14:52:38 BST." <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B022CE2@exchange>
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> Sorry to bother you folks, but I sent a reply to a question to this list > this morning and it appears to have bounced. The header from the > returned mail is below. The top few lines look a little strange > (#I.added.this...), also an error message in the body is complaining > about not finding a domain called 'Penelope.#I.added.this.10/21/97>' > (not surprisingly!). Any thoughts anyone? > > Is this just a 'normal' email glitch, or something more sinister? > > Jeff > > --------------------------------------------------- > Jeffery Bond > <mailto:jeffbond@compuserve.com> > <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeffbond>; > --------------------------------------------------- > This is my error. Trying to figure out how to configure sendmail, etc., in the wee small hours that are the only time allowed by work and active young child is perhaps not the best way. My apologies to everyone. I didn't even know what happened to my email, because all the email I downloaded this morning (300+) disappeared into limbo, so I didn't see what happened to it, or what responses to correct me may have been directed my way. [If anyone on this list _did_ send me an email, *sheepishly* could you please do so again?] But, yes, I had malconfigured sendmail, and that is what caused this bounced email. I was trying to set my local hostname in FreeBSD 2.2.2 as Penelope. My email address should not have "Penelope" anywhere in it--I have a dynamic PPP account with my ISP, interactive.net, so my email address should be cbooth@onyx.interactive.net....The "#I.added.this.10/21/97" comment was supposed to be just that--a comment so that I could follow my changes and undo them if they were wrong. [Aaaugh!! I am in Linux now, which should work okay, but now I am feeling paranoid about this, too.] Again, my apologies to Mr. Bond and everybody on the FreeBSD mailing list. -- ________________________________ Chris Booth cbooth@onyx.interactive.net
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