Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:09:26 -0700 From: "Ghulam Dastgir" <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: DNS/Sendmail problems Message-ID: <01bee3b7$aecddd40$LocalHost@signup>
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Funny one this. There I am happily sending and receiving email then one day all of a sudden I can't send email. The problem, my ISP's mail server complains that it doesn't recognise the domain being given when I send my email out. Apparently sendmail says my full email name is: banta@voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk, I know this is nonsense because voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk is the hostname of my FBSD box (shortname voyager) and my domain is ghulam.force9.co.uk. So why is sendmail doing this? I've checked my /etc/sendmail.cf file and made sure that I am masquerading as my proper domain name i.e. ghulam.force9.co.uk. Because sendmail by default would otherwise use the full name of the local system - voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk. So despite me masquerading sendmail still seems to revert to the system name. I've even set that thing in /etc/sendmail.cf (whose name I forget) that forces sendmail to use the proper domain name - but no luck. By the way, I've checked my DNS files and they're all OK. Whad d'ya reckon cowboys? Cheers, Ghulam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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