(newbie) sendmail Masquerading Help?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 15.08.2004 schrieb Harry Putnam um 0:38:

> On reviewing the thread several times, I see what you mean about the
> message being local.  But if you look at the bounce error, it appears
> to be copied from the mailer daemon bounce notice not from the output
> of `mail -v' 
> 
>   >>> MAIL From:<jorge at satyr.bogus.jl> SIZE=334 AUTH=<>
>   <<< 553 satyr.bogus.jl does not exist
>   501 5.6.0 Data format error

No, that is part of the dialog from: date | /usr/lib/sendmail -b
address at domain.tld

> I'm still thinking its his smart host doing the rejection and
> error. Hope not to be clouding things up here.... and for Jorge's
> benefit let me state that I am far from expert in sendmail matters.

I bet his Sendmail is rejecting. The smart host does not see the mail at
all. Bet? :)

> > I would like to see what Jorge has in his /etc/hosts file, for localhost
> > and satyr.bogus.jl.
> 
> Yes, that would be good.

He did and it showed to be false. Once corrected I bet all is ok without
masquerading.

> Alexander responded:
> > That the FQDN couldn't be looked up irritated me too. Whether verizon
> > requires a resolvable FQDN for all who send mail through their customers
> > MTA (acting as smart host) should be pointed out by the support of
> > verizon.
> 
> I'm confused here.  What do you mean by `through their customers MTA'?
> Why would a customers MTA be acting as smart_host?  

Sorry! I should have written "who send mail through their MTA for their
customers". I meant the verizon MTA which is there and configured to act
as smart host for their customers.

Alexander


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