This bug also seems to be upstream and unfixed in the Debian Etch Sendmail package as bug 375787 . I have added the following report there as follows:
My /etc/mail/m4/dialup.m4 contained: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached')dnl This seems to end up within the HELO/EHLO greeting for sent messages, breaking RFC2821 . This resulted in my server ( 80.68.90.112 ) getting a cbl.abuseat.org blacklisting which was picked up by zen.spamhaus.org causing my outgoing mail to be blocked. -- [feisty] sendmail unable to automatically determine domain name https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99459 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs