From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 1:29:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ngo.org.uk (ngo.org.uk [193.62.43.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3B837BD41 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mac@ngo.org.uk) Received: (from mac@localhost) by ngo.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA14353; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:30:38 +0100 (BST) From: Mac Message-Id: <200006200830.JAA14353@ngo.org.uk> Subject: Re: mail undeliverable In-Reply-To: <00ea01bfda39$27c6bc30$c7016e0a@hoorj> from Michael Dungan at "Jun 19, 0 05:55:55 pm" To: mpd@bluetie.net (Michael Dungan) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:30:37 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Dungan Wrote > Hello, Hi, > > send to the IP address, it bounces saying the host is unknown (text included > at end of this message.) This host is definitely reachable, and I can telnet And indeed I did (eventually) find the included text). > > Message 1: > > From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Jun 19 16:35:14 2000 > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:35:14 GMT > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > To: mpd > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; > boundary="QAA37850.961432514/ns2.bluetie.com" > Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: 10.110.1.2: host not Did anyone else get stung by the lack of a '>' in front of the 'From ' line in this included message? I believed that the final delivery agent (in this case FreeBSD-2.5's 'mail.local' would take action to prevent such line getting into a mailbox. Or is my mail agent not supposed to recognise this line as a message separator? (ELM 2.4ME+ PL38 (25) from a package). Mac To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message