Mike I have never used smail but had a simular problem with sendmail. I did the following and got sendmail to work. In /etc/sendmail.cf: Find the line that begins with DMfoo.com ( or #DMfoo.com) change to DMcse.unl.edu (Domain Masquerade) Find the line #Dj$w.foo.com and change it to Dj$w.ravine.binary.net ( if that is your ISP mail host address) Find the DS (Smart Host line) and put DSravine.binary.net My Dj$w and DS are NOT the same. DS is my mail address domain (ix.netcom.com). Dj$w is my smtp server address. My pop server is, of course, not mentioned in my sendmail.cf file. I did the above and use sendmail -q to send mail to my ISP. That is the fastest way. On my Slackware system, I am using qmail and after a bunch of work I finally found that that is the best and (really) easiest system to set up. Sooner or later I will just copy those files over to SuSE. Let me know if you need some help with the Qmail setup. Its a great system but the docs are NOT all that informative. Funny that, once you get it set up, looking back, is isn't that hard to do. Good luck HTH Wayne Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Mail problems Date: Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 07:40:00AM -0600 In reply to:Mike Hostetler Quoting Mike Hostetler (thehaas@ravine.binary.net):

I'm having some serious problems when trying to send mail out over my PPP connection. My ISP have dynamic ip addressing, which adds to the problem.

What I see is this: I'm presently using smail, but I saw the same results with sendmail. Things look like this:

118 jesusfreak:~ > /usr/lib/sendmail -v mhostetl@cse.unl.edu hello .. write_log:Received FROM:mikeh PROGRAM:sendmail SIZE:76 mhostetl@cse.unl.edu: cse.unl.edu matched by bind_hosts: routed mhostetl@cse.unl.edu --> mhostetl@cse.unl.edu at cse.unl.edu transport hint mx 0 cse.unl.edu address hint cse.unl.edu 129.93.33.1 transport inet_zone_bind_smtp uses driver tcpsmtp lock retry/smtp/cse.unl.edu lock succeeded (will defer failure) retry/smtp/cse.unl.edu transport inet_zone_bind_smtp: connect to host cse.unl.edu [129.93.33.1]/smtp...connected transport inet_zone_bind_smtp: 451 <mikeh@jesusfreak.binary.net>... Sender domain must resolve unlock (success) retry/smtp/cse.unl.edu write_log:Deferred TO:mhostetl@cse.unl.edu ROUTER:bind_hosts TRANSPORT:inet_zone_bind_smtp ERROR:(ERR151) transport inet_zone_bind_smtp: 451 <mikeh@jesusfreak.binary.net>... Sender domain must resolve

So it can't resolve my hostname, which wouldn't happen if I had a static ip address. What is the way around this???

- mikeh

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