DNS or sendmail problem: wrong domain name in delivery
Schaefer, Paul A
SchaePA at ch.etn.com
Thu Jan 4 15:33:10 UTC 2001
Sendmail complains a lot if your fully-articulated host name is not in your
hosts file.
>
> It's not a DNS problem - I don't think it's really a sendmail problem
> either.
>
> I'm guessing you're using Pine - you need to inform it of the
> contents you
> want after hte @ in the email address - have a dig through
> the settings.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Ludin [mailto:ludin at swissonline.ch]
> Sent: 04 January 2001 13:30
> To: BIND Users Mailing List
> Subject: DNS or sendmail problem: wrong domain name in delivery
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have this problem with sendmail and/or DNS:
>
> I can send mail to my domain, but when I send a message FROM
> there, the
> mail is returned with:
>
> Domain of sender address dani at xhost does not exist.
> Data format error 501
>
> (I composed and sent the mail via the webmin sendmail
> interface, in case it
> matters).
>
>
> Why does sendmail create an address with the machine name
> ("dani at xhost")
> instead of the domain ("dani at cybertoolz.ch") ????
>
>
> Some documentation say about this error:
>
> 501 Sender domain must exist
> These error replies are issued if the envelope sender address
> references a
> DNS domain, for which no A or MX record can be found.
>
> But when I do a nslookup, I get the MX record correctly (or am I wrong
> here?) :
>
> [xhost:~] dani% nslookup -type=MX cybertoolz.ch
> Server: cybertoolz.ch
> Address: 212.254.208.245
>
> cybertoolz.ch preference = 20, mail exchanger =
> mail.cybertoolz.ch
> cybertoolz.ch nameserver = xhost.cybertoolz.ch
> cybertoolz.ch nameserver = ns.swisshosting.net
> mail.cybertoolz.ch internet address = 212.254.208.245
> xhost.cybertoolz.ch internet address = 212.254.208.245
> ns.swisshosting.net internet address = 212.254.208.100
>
>
> Can somebody please tell me if this DNS configuration is
> supposed work - or
> did I miss something else in the sendmail configuration?
>
> Dani Ludin
>
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