Re: [ILUG] Mail problems...

From: valen at domain tuatha.org
Date: Fri 27 Aug 1999 - 17:18:54 IST


On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 03:13:31PM +0100, valen at domain tuatha.org mentioned:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:49:31PM +0100, Liam Bedford mentioned:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > > > However, for some reason, not all mails are getting out. I've no
> > > > idea why. I only know of two people that aren't getting my mails -
> > > > when I send them with mutt. When I send them with outlook, all is
> > > > OK.
> > The one's you're sending to me fail because the sender domain isn't valid
> > (can you change that in Mutt?)
>
> I have no idea. I've changed a few (like use_domain etc). But it doesn't
> seem to matter. I think that broken mailers expect to be able to do a
> hostname lookup on the machine that sent the thing. Seeing as my machine
> gets it's IP address via DHCP, that's not going to happen...

 It's cool. Turns out that anyone that had a decent anti-spam system
rejected my mails...thanks to Kenn that told me of a few cunning
sendmail.mc lines to fix it!

Kate, who can mail *all* the world again



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