That solved it! I didn't understand the 'SmartHost' concept in sendmail before you mentioned it. I looked it up, configured it, now it works like a charm. Thanks man! Now I can use Mutt to my heart's content. ;)
Charles Cazabon wrote: > Bob McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But this isn't a problem with the SMTP headers having bad info. This is a > > problem with the HELO SMTP "handshake" having bad info. > > Mutt sends the message to my local sendmail, my local sendmail attempts to > > send the mail, it connects to the destination mail server and begins the > > conversation with 'HELO intranet.fssi-ca.com' to identify itself before it > > begins sending the message. > > The problem is that many mail servers take that 'HELO' information and test > > the host name to see if it's a "real" resolvable internet address. > > "intranet.fssi-ca.com" is not a resolvable address because it's internal. > > If I could get my process to connect to my public SMTP server instead of > > trying to send it through my local sendmail, that would solve my problem. > > No, it would mask your problem (`man band-aid`). The real solution is to > configure your MTA to use an "acceptable" argument to the HELO command, or to > tell it to forward your mail to your ISP's smarthost. This is possible with > sendmail or any other MTA. > > Charles > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
