Eric Mosley wrote:
> Anyway, every time I try and send a mail out of the company, say if I'm on
> machine mail.mycompany.com and I try and send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I
> get the mail straight back into my mail box with errors saying
>
> while talking to mail.yahoo.com
> >>> Mail From <mail.mycompany.com>
> <<< 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...sender domain must exist
>
> now, from the command line I can do a nslookup mail and get its IP
> address, so what does that mean?
It means that sendmail attempts to perform the lookup and doesn't
succeed.
> Can I configure sendmail to do something else?
If you can't fix the nameservice lookup, you should be able to disable
the check within sendmail.cf, by rebuilding it with
FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)
defined.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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