E-mail/DNS quuestion

[R. Ransbottom]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> This is not quite a Linux question, but  since last Tuesday, I have been 
> unable to send email directly from my Linux box to any mediaone address.
> 
> The message I get bounced back from mediaone servers is:
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; gaf at mediaone.net
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.5.0
> Remote-MTA: DNS; chmls19.mediaone.net
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 5.1.8 <gaf at mediaone.net>... Domain of sender 
> address gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net does not exist
> Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:06:34 -0500
> 
> I can send successfully to virtually every other address. 
> gaf.ne.mediaone.net is properly configured by the mediaone DNS services.

I saw this problem once.  I rewrote headers so that everything 
is from "rir at mediaone.net" and haven't seen the problem since.



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