mail "ping" attempt

[Ben Thomas]

Hi Giorgos,

Thanks for your response.  We deal with a lot places and lots of email.
This is the first time this problem has come up.  Very curious, but I'm
hoping you get this and it's fixed.


Thanks,
-b


On 2005-09-02 15:21, ben.thomas3 at comcast.net wrote:
> [I've been unable to send to submit problem reports, and I tried sending the 
following email from the FreeBSD web page to bugbusters at freebsd.org.  That 
attempt failed as well.  So, I'm trying one more time from my home account to 
see if this works.]
>
> Your message
>
>   To:      bugbusters at FreeBSD.org
>   Subject: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org  status ?
>   Sent:    Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:09:25 -0400
>
> did not reach the following recipient(s):
>
> bugbusters at FreeBSD.org on Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:13:05 -0400
>     The e-mail system was unable to deliver the message, but did not
> report a specific reason.  Check the address and try again.  If it still
> fails, contact your system administrator.
>     <exchange.katana.local #4.0.0 smtp;450 <exchange.katana.local>: Helo
> command rejected: Host not found>

Your mail system is not set up properly.  It tries to send email messages to
the FreeBSD.org domain with an envelope address whose domain (shown above as
``exchange.katana.local'') does not resolve to an IP address.

If you need help with configuring your mail system to ``masquerade''
internal addresses to real-world addresses, that are acceptable as
envelope-from addresses by FreeBSD.org, don't hesitate to contact me
directly, in one of my non-FreeBSD addresses:

	keramida at linux.gr
	keramida at serverhive.com
	keramida at ceid.upatras.gr

Regards,
Giorgos

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