RE: Unknown host

[Rick <rickya@siservices.net>]

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On 02-Apr-97 Andreas Tille wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i installed smail from the unstable tree. I havn't any idea how to
>configre smail. When I installed Slackware half a year ago I configured
>nothing and it worked. Now I answered the some questions while
>installing smail, but any mail to any host (except on my own machine)
>is returned to sender.
>
>Would anyone be so kind to give me a hint, which document to read or
>which file is responsible for the error which causes the following
>reply on a Testmail:
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:41:08 +0200 (CEST)
>From: <MAILER-DAEMON@bridge.physik.uni-halle.de>
>To: e2od5
>Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
>Reference: <m0wCKff-00001JC@bridge.physik.uni-halle.de>
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:41:08 +0200 (CEST)
>From: <MAILER-DAEMON@bridge.physik.uni-halle.de>
>To: e2od5
>Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
>Reference: <m0wCKff-00001JC@bridge.physik.uni-halle.de>
>
>|------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------|
> no valid recipients were found for this message
>|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
> e2od5@141.48.3.3 ... unknown host
>|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
>Received: by bridge.physik.uni-halle.de
>        id m0wCKff-00001JC
>        (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:41:07 +0200
>(CEST)
>Message-Id: <m0wCKff-00001JC@bridge.physik.uni-halle.de>
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:41:07 +0200 (CEST)
>From: e2od5 (Andreas Tille)
>To: e2od5@141.48.3.3
>Subject: April
>
>Thanks for advise
>
>   Andreas
>

Is that a typo or did you intentionally send it to an IP address instead of a do
main?  I telneted to the IP and verified the user.  The problem is that smail is
 doing a name look up on an IP address and getting a bad response.  Send it usin
g the domain and it should go through.


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Rick <rickya@siservices.net>
E-Mail: Rick <rickya@siservices.net>
Date: 02-Apr-97
Time: 03:43:07
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