SOLVED -- Re: problem sending mail...

[Jesse Evans <jpjevans@earthlink.net>]

Folks,

	Thanks to Daniel J. Brosemer <odin@bolverk.dorm.org>, I was able to
solve my problem by running smailconf.

	Thanks to all who offered their help! :-)


On Mon, 01 Mar 1999, William Park wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> 	Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses.
>> 
>
>It looks like the recipient's mail server insists on legal sender's
>address on email envelope.  For example, your envelope
>
>    From jesse@debian Mon Mar  1 23:47:45 1999
>
>is rejected because 'jesse@debian' is not legal internet address.
>I had similar problem, some time ago.  My solution was to re-generate
>/etc/sendmail.cf from /usr/src/sendmail/cf/cf/linux.smtp.mc:
>
>    include(`../m4/cf.m4')
>    VERSIONID(`linux for smtp-only setup')dnl
>    OSTYPE(linux)
>    FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
>    MASQUERADE_AS(better.net)dnl		<-- my ISP
>    FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl		<-- my addition
>    FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
>    MAILER(local)dnl
>    MAILER(smtp)dnl
>
>It turned out the following section controls how sendmail writes
>an envelope:
>
>    ###################################################################
>    ###  Ruleset 94 -- convert envelope names to masqueraded form   ###
>    ###################################################################
>
>    S94
>    R$+                     $@ $>93 $1
>    #R$* < @ *LOCAL* > $*   $: $1 < @ $j . > $2
>
>--William.
>
>
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'til next we type...
HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse