Mutt & sendmail configuration problems

[Ulf Magnusson]

I made the modifications suggested, but I still get the same error message. Note the following part:

... while talking to smtp.liu.se.:
>>> DATA
<<< 504 <ulf at obygden>: Sender address rejected: need fully-
qualified address

I'm guessing the problem is that "obygden" isn't a fully-qualified address, since it's only visible on the local network (that is, you can't do a DNS lookup on it from systems not connected to the network). What I don't know is how to find out what my fully-qualified address is, provided I have one (my understanding of DNS is still somewhat patchy). And, if I do know my fully-qualified hostname, how do I make sendmail use it instead of "obygden" when talking to the SMTP server?

----- Original Message -----
From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs at onlinehome.de>
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:47 pm
Subject: Re: Mutt & sendmail configuration problems

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to set up sendmail to route outgoing mail to an
> external SMTP server. I need this for Mutt, which doesn't have its
> own means of transfering mail and relies on whatever MTA the system
> provides. I found out about sendmail's SMARTHOST capability and
> added this line to my <host>.mc configuration file (built by 'cd
> /etc/mail && make && make install'):
> >
> > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.liu.se')
>
> Hi,
>
> the FEATURE has to be:
>
> define(`SMART_HOST', `[smtp.liu.se]')dnl
>
> Optional you can use the authinfo-file feature:
>
> FEATURE(`authinfo')dnl
>
> If so create a file /etc/mail/authinfo wiht something like this:
>
> AuthInfo:smtp.liu.se "U:yourusername" "P:yourpassword"
>
> Go to /etc/mail and run as root:
> makemap hash authinfo < authinfo
> chmod 600 authinfo authinfo.db
>
> Oliver
>
>
> >
> > I then installed the changes with 'make && make install && make
> restart'. Now, whenever I try to send mail from Mutt, I get back
> the following failure notice:
> >
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:21 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> > To: <ulf at obygden>
> > Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
> > Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
> >
> > [-- Bilaga #1 --]
> > [-- Typ: text/plain, Kodning: 7bit, Storlek: 0,5K --]
> >
> > The original message was received at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:20
> +0100 (CET)
> > from localhost [127.0.0.1]
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <ulfma629 at student.liu.se>
> >     (reason: 504 <ulf at obygden>: Sender address rejected: need
> fully-qualified address)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to smtp.liu.se.:
> > >>> DATA
> > <<< 504 <ulf at obygden>: Sender address rejected: need fully-
> qualified address
> > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> > <<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
> >
> > [-- Bilaga #2 --]
> > [-- Typ: message/delivery-status, Kodning: 7bit, Storlek: 0,4K --]
> >
> > Reporting-MTA: dns; obygden
> > Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost
> > Arrival-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:20 +0100 (CET)
> >
> > Final-Recipient: RFC822; ulfma629 at student.liu.se
> > Action: failed
> > Status: 5.5.4
> > Remote-MTA: DNS; smtp.liu.se
> > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 504 <ulf at obygden>: Sender address
> rejected: need
> > +fully-qualified address
> > Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:21 +0100 (CET)
> >
> > [-- Bilaga #3 --]
> > [-- Typ: message/rfc822, Kodning: 7bit, Storlek: 0,7K --]
> >
> > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:20 +0100
> > From: Ulf Magnusson <ulfma629 at student.liu.se>
> > To: ulfma629 at student.liu.se
> > Subject: test
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i
> >
> > test
> >
> >
> > any ideas? Please be aware that I'm totally new to sendmail when
> replying :)
>
> --
> ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
>