Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains
The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his firewall.
That is how this message is getting out, my box masqerades as
vnet.ibm.com when sending mail externally.
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Rick Nelson
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote:
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gene McCulley <mcculley@cuspy.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: sendmail rejecting bad domains
> Resent-Date: 10 Sep 1998 15:12:00 -0000
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> I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a
> firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the
> sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in
> the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with "501 Sender domain must exist".
> The sender can't fix his corporation's broken firewall. How do I get
> sendmail to allow this message through? I care less about spam than I
> do lost email.
>
> Thanks for any clues.
>
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