553 sorry, your envelope sender domain must exist (#5.7.1)

[Ben Sewell]

Hi,
can this be replaced by a hostname?

Thanks,
Ben

>From: Robert Canary <phantom at ohiocounty.net>
>Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>To: Dennis James <denniswj at iinet.net.au>,General Red Hat Linux discussion 
>list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: 553 sorry, your envelope sender domain must exist (#5.7.1)
>Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:39:58 -0500
>
>Dennis,
>
>Your defualt setting in the sendmail.cf file prevents sendmial from 
>recieving mail accept on the local machine (127.0.0.1)
>
>DAEMON OPTIONS('Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1,Name=mta')dnl
>
>This should be all on one line.  Your email may have truncated it.
>
>The machine which you are sending mail must have a valid FQDN.  With junk 
>mail running rampid these days, most properly adminstered MTAs will reject 
>mail from a host which dosen't reverse resolve or dosen't have a proper 
>host lookup. localhost.localdomain is a dummy hostname used for looping on 
>a single machine (or sometimes on a closed network).
>
>
>Dennis James wrote:
>>Some time ago I was trying to send root mail to an isp smtp
>>mail.m.mynet.net.au.
>>I have succeeded in sending the email when doing a test, but I get the
>>following error.
>>
>>553 sorry, your envelope sender domain must exist (#5.7.1)
>>
>>The domain of the machine is localhost.localdomain.
>>
>>I want only to be able to send email (to my email address and a work
>>address) logs to myname at mynet.net.au.
>>
>>I do not want to receive mail only send root mail and log files.
>>
>>Is there a simple way of doing this.
>>
>>I have had assistance previously which helped a lot.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>
>>Dennis @ Scone
>>
>>
>
>
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