send-pr issues probably related to sendmail misconfiguration

[Evan Dower]

sendmail config confounds me. how do I do that?
Thanks,
Evan


>From: Jim Mock <mij at soupnazi.org>
>
>On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 07:50  PM, Evan Dower wrote:
>>When I try to send-pr, I get:
>>
>>May  9 02:28:09 lojak sm-mta[21955]: h499RhZE021953: 
>>to=<FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>, 
>>ctladdr=<evantd at lojak.washington.edu> (1001/1001), delay=00:00:26, 
>>xdelay=00:00:25, mailer=esmtp, pri=30460, relay=mx1.freebsd.org. 
>>[216.136.204.125], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 <lojak.washington.edu>: 
>>Helo command rejected: Host not found
>>
>>I can 'mail evantd at hotmail.com' just fine, but I suspect that the hotmail 
>>servers don't resolve hostnames. lojak.washington.edu is NOT an FQDN, but 
>>it's a lot nicer looking. I suppose I could try changing whatever needs to 
>>be changed to my FQDN, but what exactly would need to be changed? Is that 
>>even what seems to be necessary?
>
>The FreeBSD mail server will bounce anything that doesn't resolve.  If UW 
>gave you a smart host (a.k.a., SMTP server) on their network to use, 
>configure sendmail to use it.
>
>- jim
>
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