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Re: rejected mail DNS unresolved



On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:53:11PM +0930, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to send to this server here:
> but because I'm sending from a dialup box, the server can't resolve my
> domain name. 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ... while talking to mx0.gmx.de.:
> >>> MAIL From:<luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <<< 550 5.1.8 {mx055} Cannot resolve your domain
> 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> I've suppressed the from field in .muttrc with 'unset use_from'
> and added a 'my_hdr From: luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> but somehow the server still doesn't want to receive my mail.
> I've tried sending from some webmail addresses to myself to inspect the
> headers and not really found an answer,
> 
> How would I suppress that info? Obviously the server admin at gmx.de
> have a security measure in place that they don't want to change.
> 
> what d'ya think?

Take a look on your SMTP server configuration. This is not a mutt
problem, but your SMTP (exim, postfix, sendmail, whatever) which
send your username@hostname to remote SMTP server.
You can change this behaviour: make it send a hostname which really
exists/resolves.

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