sendmail

John Thayer Jensen john at harts.co.nz
Wed May 10 05:05:11 UTC 2000


I'm sure this is a very newbie question, but I just can't figure it out.

New Linux machine.  I can ppp to my ISP just fine.  The machine
is called linux1.harts.co.nz.  The name harts.co.nz has a DNS
entry but linux1.harts.co.nz does not.  If I telnet to an SMTP host
port 25 I can send mail as me at harts.co.nz just fine, but when
I try to use mail or elm or something to do the same thing I always
get a bounce back with an error 501 saying that it has to be
able to find the domain linux1.harts.co.nz in DNS.  I have tried
various things using linuxconf, directly editing sendmail.mc and
regenerating, directly editing sendmail.cf.  No go.  It always tries
to do an SMTP connexion as me at linux1.harts.co.nz rather
than without the linux1.

Help!

John Thayer Jensen
john at harts.co.nz





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