Dennis Robertson proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>> The problem is that when the receiving site tries to do a
>> reverse DNS lookup of your IP number, it is NOT getting
>> your domain name. This is a common problem. You need to get the
That is right.
>Thanks. My ISP has replied: quote: It is not the username that's breaking
>things. Your MUA (mutt) is setting the envelope return address to
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The domain dencar.powerup.com.au doesn't exist,
So, no big deal :) I use mutt on a dialup - static ips come rather costly
in India, and I really don't need one for my home ISP (I use mutt there
too).
>and some MTAs bounce mail for which no DNS records exist - the mail server at
>TPG is one such machine. unquote
What do you mean _some_ MTAs bounce mail for which no DNS records exist?
Any MTA in a production environment which accepts mail like that deserves
to be trashed ASAP.
I run sendmail on a bunch of domains, and on my linux box at home. The
only reason I have set sendmail on my linux box to accept mail from / for
unresolvable domains is that it is on a dialup and doesn't have 24*7 DNS.
>In further discussion with their tech support I was told that the way to
>overcome the problem is to obtain a static IP address, which for them means
>having a permanent connection. Too many $$$ I'm afraid. I'll talk to the
>guy who gave me the first advice about your suggestion.
So, he tried to sell you a static IP which you don't need :)
As you are running mutt 1.2, just put
set hostname=powerup.com.au
set envelope_from
in your .muttrc
This is equivalent to /path/to/sendmail -oi -oem -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(or whatever) - so that you don't send out mail as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In older mutts you'd have to add something like
set sendmail=qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever - I
don't grok qmail) ;)
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cat, n.:
Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer.
