Most responses correctly told me how the variables are defined (i.e.
Dmabc.com).
This helped, but there were still problems. Some suggested I upgrade
sendmail, and
Kristian sent me the compiled binaries & config files for the upgrade,
which
turned the trick.
Thanks again,
Michael Cook
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Original message:
Hello all,
My name is Michael Cook, and I am trying to run sendmail on a
Sun UltraSparc 2, version 2.5.1. I keep receiving errors and tried to
find
an answer in the sendmail FAQ, but couldn't; however, one area seemed to
address the problem, I found it at:
http://www.sendmail.org./compiling.html#Introduction
the text found was:
When running sendmail under Solaris, the gethostbyname()
hack in conf.c which should perform proper
canonicalization
of host names could fail. Result: the host name is not
canonicalized despite the hack, and you'll have to
define $j
and $m in sendmail.cf somewhere.
the error is:
#more mail.tmp
?
From Mailer-Daemon Wed Feb 18 13:47:37 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:47:37 -0700
From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Message-Id: <199802182047.NAB05122@www.>
To: Postmaster
Content-Length: 744
The original message was received at Wed, 18 Feb 1998
13:47:35 -0700
from nobody@localhost
----- The following addresses had delivery problems
-----
webmaster@xyz.com (unrecoverable error)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to ns1.azfamily.com.:
>>> HELO www.
<<< 501 Invalid HELO parameter: "www."
554 webmaster@azfamily.com... Service unavailable
----- Message header follows -----
Return-Path: <nobody>
Received: by www. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id NAA05026; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:47:35 -0700
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:47:35 -0700
Message-Id: <199802182047.NAA05026@www.>
To: webmaster@azfamily.com
From: not provided
Subject: ABC Comments
content-length: 10
----- Message body suppressed -----
my guess from the excerpt above is that $m is not defined
properly. I tried to define it in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file by
placing the
line:
$m=abc.com
but that didn't work.
I would be happy to forward anyone further info they may need
(i.e. the sendmail.cf file). I will summarize. Any help or suggestions
would be
greatly appreciated!!!
Michael Cook
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