On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:45, David wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:28, Brian Parish wrote: > > I have a server which was happily downloading mail from several pop3 > > mailboxes. After a reboot, for every message I get: > > > > SMTP error - Domain of sender address does not resolve > > > > Pulling the messages directly with an e-mail client works, so it would > > not appear to be something amiss with the ISP's mail server. > > > > Can anyone suggest what's going on here? > > > Your mailserver is attempting to reverse lookup the sender domain of > each email. Have the DNS ip's changed? If using a mailserver in chroot > jail, is it's copy of resolve.conf correct? Is your default route/gw > setup? > > HTH, > David.
Thanks David, It looks like that I agree, but this is not really a mailserver, just a 9.1 box that runs fetchmail. Would fetchmail really try to do reverse lookups? Anyway, I'll check out that angle. thanks again Brian
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