[ale] Trying to move to the command line.

[Joe Steele]

The SMTP server at mx01.alltel.net is rejecting your message because 
the envelope is addressed from bruce at toybox.alltel.net and the domain 
name toybox.alltel.net does not exist.  I presume you have named your 
box 'toybox.alltel.net', which is not a real name in alltel.net's DNS 
records.

I don't believe the 'mail' program makes any effort to designate the 
'from' address in either the headers or the envelope.  It simply 
passes the message on to sendmail, and expects sendmail to figure out 
the 'from' address.  Unless told differently, sendmail will create 
the 'from' address using the user's login name and the host's fully 
qualified domain name.

A solution kind of depends on one's particular e-mail/domain 
situation.  One possibility might be to set up a genericstable 
database which sendmail could use to translate local user names to 
valid 'from' e-mail addresses.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Bruce L. Bryant [SMTP:bbryant at alltel.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:06 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] Trying to move to the command line.

Hello, all. Newbie here, again.
I've been trying to figure out how to use mail, or mailx. Have tried to
send messages to myself and to others. Keep getting this:
>From MAILER-DAEMON at toybox.alltel.net Wed Feb 13 15:01:59 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:58:03 -0600
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at toybox.alltel.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: bruce at toybox.alltel.net
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:58:01 -0600
from bruce at localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
bbryant at alltel.net
    (reason: 553 toybox.alltel.net does not exist)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
.. while talking to mx01.alltel.net.:
>>> MAIL From:<bruce at toybox.alltel.net> SIZE=63
<<< 553 toybox.alltel.net does not exist
501 5.6.0 bbryant at alltel.net... Data format error

    [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; toybox.alltel.net
Arrival-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:58:01 -0600

Final-Recipient: RFC822; bbryant at alltel.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.3
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 toybox.alltel.net does not exist
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:58:02 -0600


    [ Part 3: "Included Message" ]

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:58:01 -0600
From: "Bruce L. Bryant" <bruce>
To: bbryant at alltel.net
Subject: mail

does this get to alltel.
I've read all the HOWTOs and RFC's and all I am is confused.
TIA
Bruce


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