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On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:33 am, Mark Glassberg wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:14:08AM -0500, David Kramer wrote: > > Are you talking about sendmail on your own server rejecting mail, or mail > > that you've sent through sendmail on your own server being rejected? > > I'm using Mutt, which uses sendmail, to forward mail to a mail server > which, from my telnet contacts, seems to be running smtp at port 25. And that mail server is at your ISP? > > What does the "hostname" command return on your system? > > It gives my local hostname, which I've configured as my isp username. I've > also given it, in /etc/hosts, my isp's domain, so that hostname -f returns > username.intergate.com. OK, well I wish you would have answered the question by showing me the output, since your answer doesn't address my point. > > A hostname should not have a @ in it. The parameter to HELO is the > > hostname of the client (not the email address of the sender), so there > > should never be an @ on the HELO line in an SMTP conversation. > > But the problem is that the mail server knows my machine when I use telnet, > but not when I use sendmail. You mean when you telnet to port 25 of the ISP's sendmail? What are you typing in on the HELO line in that case? You stated, correctly, that a HELO followed by a string with a @ will not work, but you didn't say what did work. -- DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code DK KD than 10 minutes listening to musak waiting for technical support DDDD which isn't. -Greg Wettstein
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