Sendmail, bat book and Arrrggggghh!

[Sean Roe]

Just an FYI:

Ditched sendmail, installed Qmail....Wow I didn't know email services could
be this easy!

Good howto is at:
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html

Sean

----- Original Message -----
From: D. Taylor <dtaylor@www.dssolutions.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail, bat book and Arrrggggghh!


>
> This is one of the anti-spam features of sendmail.
> See sendmail.org for details.
>
> Possible solutions:
>
> Ensure that "yaqui.we-web.com" can be looked up in DNS.
> Good DNS is always a Good Thing(TM).
>
> Configure sendmail to masquerade "yaqui.we-web.com"
> behind "we-web.com".
>
> Add "yaqui.we-web.com" to /etc/hosts.  Doubt this will work.
>
> Create a special class and appropriate rewrite rule
> so that sendmail knows that "yaqui.we-web.com" is
> all good.
>
>
> D
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Sean Roe wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:08:13 -0700
> > From: Sean Roe <jackryan@azbiz.net>
> > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Sendmail, bat book and Arrrggggghh!
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to configure sendmail on a RH 6.1 box, and it will send mail
> > out, but it keeps getting bounced:  the error I get is:
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > jackryan@azbiz.net
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to warp.azbiz.net.:
> > >>> MAIL From:<sean@yaqui.we-web.com> SIZE=303
> > <<< 501 <sean@yaqui.we-web.com>... Sender domain must exist
> > 501 jackryan@azbiz.net... Data format error
> >
> > I am thinking that is because the address is yaqui.we-web.com and not
> > we-web.com.  Is this a correct assumption?  I looked in the bat book
> > (Arrrgggh!) but I didn't see anyplace to change it.
> >
> > Help!? Pleeze!!!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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