On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:10:36PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:38:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> >I'm trying to b[ounce] a message and I'm getting the following error
> >on the mutt status line:-
> >
> > SMTP session failed: 550 Sender <chris@> invalid
> >
> >So what is it saying? Obviously "Chris@" id invalid but how is mutt
> >creating it and what is missing such that mutt can't create a valid
> >address?
>
> It looks like Mutt is not able to automatically determine the FQDN
> for your host by inspecting /etc/resolv.conf. The easiest solution
> is to manually set your $from or $hostname:
>
> set [email protected]
> set hostname=example.com
>
That was my line of thinking but.....
"hostname -fqdn" returns chris.isbd.net which is correct
and /etc/resolv.conf is:-
domain isbd.net
search isbd.net
nameserver 192.168.1.2
However I've just realised that I removed the record for
chris.isbd.net from the zone file for isbd.net at my hosting provider,
would the non-existence of chris.isbd.net break things?
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Chris Green
