On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Mike Fieschko wrote:
> Jeanette> I have used fetchmail on my other systems. Just tried
> Jeanette> to set it up on Mandrake. Got fetchmail:SMTP error: 451
> Jeanette> owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender domain must
> Jeanette> resolve?
>
> This looks as if another machine is rejecting your mail because the
> name of your machine isn't resolvable to a numeric IP address.
No, it's because the machine can't resolve the sender domain,
linux-mandrake.com.
Check your DNS settings... Can you ping linux-mandrake.com from the same
machine at the same time?
This feature is introduced to prevent people from sending a common form of
SPAM (with the sender set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or the likes).
LLaP
bero
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