Domain of sender address ... does not resolve

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sat Nov 15 03:29:21 UTC 2008


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I just did a new FC9 (fully updated) install, and it regularly rejects 
> outgoing mail with the subject error message. The address does resolve, 
> of course, so I'm not sure what it means instead of what it says.

Take the domain from the error message and run "host <domain>" on the 
command line, on the server that's rejecting the mail.

If you're sending mail from a host whose name does not resolve publicly, 
then the error that you're seeing is probably reported by mail servers 
outside your network that don't have access to your name servers.




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