Thus spake Jesse Keating on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:02:18AM CST
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:38:15 +0200
> "Thierry DELHAISE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> issued forth:
> 
> > Apr  4 17:58:36 S0003010 courieresmtpd: [ID 702911 mail.error]
> > error,relay=10.0.161.19,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 417 DNS lookup
> > failure: free.fr.  Try again later.
> > 
> > The server we have act as a mailhub from a subdomain. It's configured to
> > resolve on DNS to send and if it can't, to relay to the main mailhub in
> > front of us.
> 
> Looks like a real clear issue.  the domain free.fr cannot be resolved by the
> mail server.  Investigate the /etc/resolv.conf file for that box and make sure
> it has valid DNS servers that can resolve outside addresses.
> 
> I don't know if you can override this to allow them in, but I wouldn't do that.

Look in the esmtpd configuration file.

##NAME: BOFHCHECKDNS:0
#
#  Comment out the following line in order to accept mail with a bad
#  return address.

BOFHCHECKDNS=1


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