Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-24 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:15:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The reason I want to by-pass my ISP's mail server is > /var/log/maillog. > I want to see in that file (via 'tail -f') that my mail has reached > the addressee's mail server, and I did not see this IIRC when I used > my ISP's

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 24, 2002, 00:15 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hal, Kevin, > first: Thanks for your help ... I think I came now nearer to what I > want with my sendmail configs .. > > On Jun 23, 2002, 13:19 (-0400) Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Thanks again, Hal and Kevin: answers like yours t

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hal, Kevin, first: Thanks for your help ... I think I came now nearer to what I want with my sendmail configs .. On Jun 23, 2002, 13:19 (-0400) Kevin MacNeil wrote: > It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on > localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Kevin MacNeil
It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a couple of potential solutions to this common problem. First, try routing your mail through your isp's mailserver by defining it as a smarthost in your /etc/mail/sendmail.

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:40:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Problem the last time is, that the addressees' mail servers often > seemingly do not recognize and/or accept my local IP as a valid > mail server IP, thus rejecting my mail. At least this is my guess ... > So how can I still u