[svlug] Issue with sendmail

[Skip Evans]

Hey Robert and all,

I still don't seem to be able to resolve this. What I added
to hosts was the last line below for the system that is
sending out the email via the PHP script,
timelessdesigns.com. That is the IP address (td).com
of the machine where the site resolves.

[root at localhost etc]# cat hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain
207.234.184.231 timelessdesigns.com

The resolv.conf file contains:
[root at localhost etc]# cat resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 216.219.239.7
nameserver 216.219.239.8
search localdomain


But I'm not sure what do to next.

Skip


Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:

><quote who="Skip Evans">
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>>Apr 27 22:02:00 localhost sendmail[4079]: j3S51x2v004077:
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>>to=<skip at venomouspenguin.com>,
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>>ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain>
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>>(0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp,
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>>pri=30322, relay=venomouspenguin.com. [69.51.81.90],
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>>dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
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>This error is caused by the "From" address is an unknown
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>domain to the recipient.
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>The root of this is that sendmail cannot find the FQDN for the box.
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>Make sure /etc/hosts has the correct info for the machine:
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>10.5.4.3 joemachine.realdomain.com joemachine
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>Also make sure resolv.conf has the domainname set and that the
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>machinen is properly entered into DNS.
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