[ale] Sendmail probs continue

sangell at nan.net sangell at nan.net
Mon Jul 22 15:43:24 EDT 2002



Here is the results. I sent to bellsouth.net which I always get returns
from:

sangell at bellsouth.net... Connecting to mx06.mail.bellsouth.net. via
esmtp...
220 mail.bellsouth.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19
201-253-122-122-119-20020516) ready Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:42:36 -0400
>>> EHLO localhost.localdomain
250-imf14bis.bellsouth.net
250-HELP
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 10485760
>>> MAIL From:<webmaster at localhost.localdomain> SIZE=58
553 localhost.localdomain does not exist
/home/webmaster/dead.letter... Saved message in
/home/webmaster/dead.letter
Closing connection to mx06.mail.bellsouth.net.
>>> QUIT
221 imf14bis.bellsouth.net ESMTP server closing connection

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
\_    Steve Angell,  MCSE, CCNA           _/
\_    MIS Operations Manager               _/
\_    TSYS Debt Management             _/
\_    Norcross, GA                                   _/
\_    Phone 770-409-5570                    _/
\_    Fax      770-416-1752                   _/
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/


                                                                                                                          
                    Jonathan Glass                                                                                        
                    <jonathan.glass at ibb.g       To:     sangell at nan.net                                                   
                    atech.edu>                  cc:                                                                       
                                                Subject:     Re: [ale] Sendmail probs continue                            
                    07/22/2002 02:09 PM                                                                                   
                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                          




Have you tried running "mail -v somebody at somedomain.com" and see what the
output is? This should give you a verbose transaction when sending the
message, and help identify the problem.  Try this command and send the
output back to me (or the list).

Thanks

Jonathan Glass, RHCE, Linux+, Network+, A+, MCP
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience/BME
Georgia Institute of Technology
Voice: 404-385-0127
E-mail: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu

At 01:54 PM 7/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Alright guys, I have a domain registered and have sendmail up and running
>and am using squirrel mail. I keep getting return e-mails from certain
>domains with an error showing that e-mails coming from my server are
coming
>as webmaster at localhost.localdomain. Now I have sent e-mails to different
>accounts and they do show webmaster at myregistereddomain.com so what gives?
>How come some are seeing the mail as from localhost.localdomain and how do
>I get rid of this altogether?
>
>thanks,
>In case it matters system is RH 7.3
>
>
>\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
>\_    Steve Angell,  MCSE, CCNA           _/
>\_    MIS Operations Manager               _/
>\_    TSYS Debt Management             _/
>\_    Norcross, GA                                   _/
>\_    Phone 770-409-5570                    _/
>\_    Fax      770-416-1752                   _/
>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
>
>
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