[ale] [OT] Sendmail (?) woes

[Greg]

I think qmail does this.  Have you called earthlink and asked ?

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:38 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Sendmail (?) woes
>
>
> Josh Freeman <josh at catea.org> writes:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 04:42, Joe wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to send mail to someone at sun.com, but my mail
> > > is always returned with:
> > >
> > > >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > > > <andrew.holt at sun.com>
> > > >     (reason: 501 <joe at orado.localdomain.private>... Sender
> domain must exist)
> > > >
> > > >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > > ... while talking to mx3.sun.com.:
> > > > >>> MAIL From:<joe at orado.localdomain.private> SIZE=1821
> > > > <<< 501 <joe at orado.localdomain.private>... Sender domain must exist
> > >
> > > Why does my delivery agent say "From:<joe at orado.localdomain.private>"
> > > when I'm explicitly setting the From: line to "jknapka at earthlink.net",
> > > (below)? Is this a sendmail.cf thing (shudder)?
> >
> > I believe so, but if I recall it is an easy one to fix. Many  mail
> > servers will reject mail from an account that does not have a valid
> > reverse DNS, and this appears to be the case. You need to make sure
> > sendmail thinks it's sending mail from mydomain.org, as opposed to
> > servername.mydomain.org.
> >
> > I believe the line you are looking for is going to be something like
> > this:
> >
> > # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
> > DMmydomain.org
>
> Tried that, restarted sendmail, and still the same error. My
> sendmail is definitely *not* masquerading as "earthlink.net",
> even though I've changed "DM" to "DMearthlink.net".
>
> Hmm...
>
> -- Joe
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