On 23-Jun-00 at 04:45, Dennis Robertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am user dennis on a machine called dencar.powerup.com.au. I have just
> had a message rejected by a remote host as follows:
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: failure notice
> Hi. this is the qmail-send program at dencar.powerup.com.au. I'm afraid
> I'm unable
> to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent
> error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Connected to 203.12.160.25 but sender was rejected.
> Remote host said: 550 Unknown domain in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> In /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain I have powerup.com.au; in /locals I
> have dencar.powerup.com.au repeated on 4 separate lines; in /me I have
> dencar.powerup.com.au; in /plusdomain I have com.au; and in /rcpthosts
> dencar.powerup.com.au repeated on 4 lines.
>
> I have read /var/qmail/doc/FAQ without learning anything.
>
> How do I stop qmail from adding the user to the machine name and confusing
> some (not all) ISPs?
Your qmail config is fine. The username isn't being added to the machine name;
it's just reporting the whole email address in the error message. The problem
is that dencar.powerup.com.au is not in the DNS.
--
Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an immediate
coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will note that this
is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)" -- Nathan Torkington
