FreeBSD Users, I've been using FreeBSD for quite some time now and have never had any real difficulty with it until now. My BSD box (4.7) runs as a gateway/firewall for my adsl and i've been doing a little fine tuning lately, and one of those is to get my BSD box to forward all mail that is sent to the root account to my real email address. I figured this wouldn't be to difficult.
I've tried two things so far which both don't work. 1) Create a .forward file in my root folder with my email address in it, this supposedly will forward all mail to the address. This didn't work. 2) Edited the aliases file in /etc and added my email address (and rebuilt) for the root account. This didn't work either. After inspecting the maillog here is what I'm seeing. ---------------------- Nov 2 03:11:43 Kantserver sendmail[1284]: gethostbyaddr(1.1.4.1) failed: 1 Nov 2 03:11:43 Kantserver sendmail[1284]: gA29BhZg001284: from=kizer, size=345, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200211020911.gA29BhZg001284@Kantserver>, relay=root@localhost Nov 2 03:11:47 Kantserver sendmail[1286]: gA29BhZg001284: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=kizer (1001/0), delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=esmtp, pri=30054, relay=vm4-ext.prodigy.net. [207.115.63.115], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error Nov 2 03:11:47 Kantserver sendmail[1286]: gA29BhZg001284: gA29BlZf001286: DSN: Data format error Nov 2 03:11:47 Kantserver sendmail[1286]: gA29BlZf001286: to=kizer, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31369, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ---------------------- I'm not good at reading these but is the prodigy address telling me that it doesn't like the fact the the from address isn't from a FQDN? That's the impression that I get. Funny thing is this...I can run the same command to send an email to my hotmail account and it WILL work, or a friends email and it WILL work, so what gives? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
