[rt-users] strange postmaster messages

[Greg.Hering at bench.com]

You need to reconfigure 'sendmail' so that the domain it sends mail from is one that is resolvable from the receiving sendmail's DNS.  I believe that is the 'Dj' line in 'sendmail.cf'.

Gregory L. Hering
4807 Bradford Drive
Huntsville, AL 35805
(256) 722-6420


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Spenner [mailto:joseph85750 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: [rt-users] strange postmaster messages
> 
> 
> I sometimes see messages as follows:
> 
> Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
> > 
> > The original message was received at Tue, 22 Jul
> 2003 19:04:22 +0300
> > from rtbox.mydomain.com [10.26.10.26]
> > 
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
> errors -----
> > <user.name at domain.com>
> >     (reason: 553 5.1.8
> <apache at rtbox.mydomain.com>... Domain of sender
> address apache at rtbox.mydomain.com does not exist)
> > 
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to lte2.domain.com.:
> > >>> MAIL From:<apache at rtbox.mydomain.com> SIZE=3108
> > <<< 553 5.1.8 <apache at rtbox.mydomain.com>... Domain
> of sender address apache at rtbox.mydomain.com does not
> exist
> > 501 5.6.0 Data format error
> 
> My RT seems to work fine, and mail flows correctly
> from outside to inside, and inside to outside, but the
> above type messages I don't understand.  I'm not sure
> if the recipients are receiving the messages during
> the above issue.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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