Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:16:29 -0600 From: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: mail problem Message-ID: <OE5498KtdhQYZkxOjmf0000cc97@hotmail.com> References: <OE36rhVRAGMd4uzHNjd00000cb8@hotmail.com> <20030306170049.GA78754@gothmog.gr>
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> On 2003-03-06 10:51, Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> wrote: > > i am able to perform the following command fine when i want to send > > mail on the local network. > > > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" henninb@localhost > > > > is there a flag that i can pass to mail to tell it to use the proper > > server for when i want to perform this operation to an address > > outside my local network? > > > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" b1henning@hotmail.com > > Have you checked your /var/log/maillog file? Any hints there? > > When you say that you are unable to use mail(1), do you mean that you > get the message returned to your local mailbox? If yes, what is the > precise error that the failed delivery contains? > > - Giorgos > ... while talking to mail.navitaire.com.: >>> MAIL From:<henninb@trinity.the-matrix.net> SIZE=389 <<< 553 5.1.8 <henninb@trinity.the-matrix.net>... Domain of sender address henni nb@trinity.the-matrix.net does not exist the error seems to point to the domain name of my internal network... is there a way to change this such that the server will accept my emial? thanks, brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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