It sounds like you're running into a feature of sendmail. That is, it
won't accept mail from a system that doesn't resolve correctly both ways.
One way you can get around this is use the "smart relay" feature of
sendmail, and relay the messages through your ISP's mail server. This way
you can still hand mail to your local sendmail for processing. You should
not have any problems using it this way *unless* your ISP doesn't have their
network setup properly.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tima Vaisburd
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 04:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Sendmail configuration and PPP
Dear experts,
I recently upgraded my system from 6.0 to 6.1 ( clean reinstall )
and have some configuration problems.
My quiestion is about mail configuration. I use standard ppp-on
script and fetchmail, MTA is sendmail, MUA is kmail.
Sometimes, my attemts to send a mail to sertain addresses fail with
the message
"localhost.localdomain" - server domain must exist
I tried to play with a masquerqde feature of sendmail, but this wasn't
helpful. Could you, please, give me a hint how to properly configure
the mail?
In Mandrake 6.0 I just set
hostname my.provider.co.il
in /etc/ppp/ip-up - which was probably a dirty trick, and in Mandrake 6.1
this breaks X security.
Tima.
