Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Apr 15 14:42:24 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:45 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
>
>>I will add to this. On my ISP's mail server, I cannot send mail out
>>from my box using sendmail. Even at work we have to modify the
>>/etc/mail/sendmail.xx files to get it to work. We had to get sendmail
>>to masquerade the addresses for the mail server to accept our mail.
>
>
> Your mail server was probably using the unresolvable domain name
> "localhost.localdomain" for outgoing mail. No properly-configured mail
> server should be accepting mail from unresolvable domain, so it's likely
> that all you need to do is to get your server to use a real domain name,
> even if it's something like blah-12.34.56.78-isp.net.
>
> Paul.
I agree that it is partly FQDN, at least at home. At work all our
workstations are real domain names. The issue is the mail server will
not forward/relay mail with these domain names
XXX.YYY.DRDC-RDDC.gc.ca. All mail must come from @DRDC-RDDC.gc.ca. I
can ping my computer using just it's first name with no problem from
any work station and I have a public IP address.
At home, I cannot get FQDN as the DHCP name keeps changing by the IP I
am assigned. I haven't looked further than mail refused for this
reason. I would have to change the domain name on all the computers
at home and do it dynamically.
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Robin Laing
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