Hello Gene: I had the same problem. If you are using smail, in the /etc/smail/config you can adjust the authentication for a specific IP addresses or subnets. Thus your server receive e-mail from the location in question.
The line in question is smtp_hello_broken_allow Peter -----Original Message----- From: Gene McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 10:12 AM Subject: sendmail rejecting bad domains >I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a >firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the >sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in >the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with "501 Sender domain must exist". >The sender can't fix his corporation's broken firewall. How do I get >sendmail to allow this message through? I care less about spam than I >do lost email. > >Thanks for any clues. > >-- >| Gene McCulley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (407) 265-0772 | >| Cuspy Solutions, Inc. | http://cuspy.com/~mcculley/ | Fax: (407) 265-0773 | >| Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries! | > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
