[TriLUG] Hopefully not so easy...

[Andrew Perrin]

I don't think that's what he's asking -- his e-mail is @telocity.com, and
telocity does give static IP's.

I think the OP is behind a firewall, and he's got sendmail configured
wrong (see the following post) so mail is listed as from
user at localhost.localdomain.  The reply that pointed to a sendmail.conf fix
shold work, I think, as would the (probably easier) switch to exim as a
mail handler.

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On Fri, 3 May 2002, John F Davis wrote:

> Hello
> 
> /action rant on
> 
> Yeah you can play games with dynamic ips and such, but a simpler approach
> is to get yourself a static ip.  What's it cost?  An extra $5
> a month or something.
> 
> It doesn't look as cool, but it works and its the right thing to do.  Then
> again maybe you like doing it the hard way.
> (I got this 3133t dynim.ip setup so I don't have to pay for static ip's and
> I host my own mail and real audio server. -=Hax0RDud3=-)
> 
> Case in point, do a nslookup on www.skink.net and a reverse using the ip.
> It all works.   (The webpage is stock since I haven't
> restored the old ones from backup yet.)  I host my own mail and I have been
> doing so for years.  Its brain dead simple.
> 
> Also, I'll pass on a work of advice I received when I was young and I knew
> everything.  I think it applies in this case.
> "If its hard work, then you are doing it wrong."
> 
> /action rant off
> 
> JD
> 
> Chris Knowles <knowlesc at telocity.com>@trilug.org on 05/03/2002 07:51:33 AM
> 
> Please respond to trilug at trilug.org
> 
> Sent by:    trilug-admin at trilug.org
> 
> 
> To:    trilug at trilug.org
> cc:
> Subject:    [TriLUG] Hopefully not so easy...
> 
> 
> 
> Got another one for you.
> 
> Ever since I discovered fetchmail, I've also been using sendmail to send
> out
> my e-mail.  (In that telocity gets cranky when you haven't just checked
> your
> e-mail before you try using their SMTP server.)
> 
> Now, I've set the hostnames of the box I'm using using the GUI programs.
> (That question was for a firewall)
> 
> PRoblem is, some domains are returning my e-mail saying that the sending
> domain must exist.  And the domain they think my e-mail is coming from is
> localhost.locadomain.
> 
> So, what do I do to allow myself to send mail?  I'm looking at the headers
> now
> (And I've sent this from the box in question) and I see a lot of
> knowlesc at localhost and such, but I've set the domain name to
> deneb.dyndns.org.  Do I need to change some sendmail configuration?
> 
> CJK
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