E-mail/DNS quuestion

[Jerry Feldman]

Actually, it is very fixable in sendmail. 

"R. Ransbottom" wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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