Sorry I bothered you with this question - I found all the answers in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It was not quite as hard as I expected.
Stephen Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I am using the default freebsd sendmail set up. I don't want to learn > the theory of sendmail - I just want to make a simple change. > > I want to send an email from a FreeBSD computer that is on an internal > network called montlan. I am sending the email to another computer, > called cauchy, that is outside of the network. The computer cauchy is > not accepting the email - it complains with the following message: > > The original message was received at Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:01:14 -0500 (CDT) > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (reason: 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender > address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to cauchy.math.missouri.edu.: > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=391 > <<< 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender address > [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist > 501 5.6.0 Data format error > > So somehow I need to tell the sendmail on hub.montlan to advertise the > name xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.client.mchsi.com (which is the true name of the > connection) rather than hub.montlan. > > Alternatively, I could tell cauchy to accept emails from hub.montlan > even though the domain does not actually exist. > > So how would I make changes to the sendmail configuration to bring about > these changes? > > > -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
