Re: sendmail: Domain must resolve
Thanks, though it looks like changing my /etc/hosts to read
127.0.0.1 localhost
24.115.135.172 cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com mi.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com mi
solved the problem. (The second entry in the second line is
the one I needed.)
-chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, staf wagemakers wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > e-mail account. After changing the hostname, I'm getting "Domain must
> > resolve" errors from sendmail (formatted strangely here to fit 70 cols):
> <snip>
> > relay=smtp.cs.ubc.ca. [142.103.6.52], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451
> > <root@mi.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>... Domain must resolve
> >
> > Also, it looks like the mails in question are not showing up in my
> > mailbox. So I guess my question is, is there a sendmail flag for
> > stifling the DNS lookup, and what is the debian-correct way to set it?
>
> If you send mail to an internet mailserver your domainname in the from address
> must resolve. So the easiest solution is to change the from address in your
> script. This is possible with the -f option.
>
> # echo "hello there" | sendmail -fyou@your.domain email@address.domain
>
> An otherway is to masquerade your hostname with a existing domainname. This
> can be done by adding the next lines to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and rebuild
> sendmail.cf.
>
> MASQUERADE_AS(`newdomain.name')
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`your_host_name')
> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)
> FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)
>
> --
> Staf Wagemakers
>
> email : staf@digibel.org
> homepage : http://www.digibel.org/~staf
>
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