On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. > > For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's > retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based > addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get > out of my ISP's domain. > > However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the > follow header: > > mail failed, returning to sender > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: jesse > > > |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| > [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender > domain > must exist |------------------------- Message text follows: > ------------------------| Received: by debian
[rest of headers snipped, this is the good part] You are connecting to the SMTP daemon on the remote machine which is attempting to do a DNS lookup on your domain. Seeing that it doesn't exist, it just denies your attempt to send. I gather you are on a dialup, so my reccomendation would be to edit your conf files to send mail through a "smarthost". If you're running smail, you can do this easily by running smailconfig which will prompt you through the whole process. > (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake > of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm > 'jesse' > on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this > message ok, so what's up? Their domain might have helped so that I could test my theory, but then I probably would have been too lazy to do so, so it probably doesn't matter. :) HTH -Dano
