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Re: trouble sending email with caff (pgp-tools / signing-party)



On Mon, 08 May 2006, Tim Olsen wrote:

> On 5/8/06, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Mon, 08 May 2006, Tim Olsen wrote:
> >
> >> Is this something that should be fixed in perl's mailtools or is my
> >> MTA setup not kosher?  I prefer to have my MTA send mail because my
> >> internal networks smart host is overloaded.
> >>
> >>     host ALUM-2.mit.edu [18.7.21.145]: 553 5.1.8 
> ><tim@lemonchord.limewire.com>... Domain of sender address 
> >tim@lemonchord.limewire.com does not exist
> >>
> >> Return-path: <tim@lemonchord.limewire.com>
> >> Received: from tim by lemonchord.limewire.com with local (Exim 4.62)
> >>       (envelope-from <tim@lemonchord.limewire.com>)
> >>       id 1Fd9Y6-0007nZ-31; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:29:34 -0400
> >
> >The address you use in the envelope does not exist (Host
> >lemonchord.limewire.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)).  Fix your Mail
> >setup.
> 
> That's because it's behind a firewall like I said.  My mail works
> fine, as long as the Sender: field is not set.  Is my mail setup still
> considered "broken" ?

Yes.  It's not the Sender: field.  It's the information in the envelope
from.  That's the place where bounces go, and it has to exist and it
has to accept mail.

Peter
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