mail "ping" attempt

[Ben Thomas <bthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Giorgos,

Thanks for your response.  We deal with a lot places and lots of email.
This is the first time this problem has come up.  Very curious, but I'm
hoping you get this and it's fixed.


Thanks,
-b


On 2005-09-02 15:21, ben.thomas3@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [I've been unable to send to submit problem reports, and I tried sending the 
following email from the FreeBSD web page to bugbusters@xxxxxxxxxxxx  That 
attempt failed as well.  So, I'm trying one more time from my home account to 
see if this works.]
> Your message
>
>   To:      bugbusters@xxxxxxxxxxx
>   Subject: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@xxxxxxxxxxx  status ?
>   Sent:    Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:09:25 -0400
>
> did not reach the following recipient(s):
>
> bugbusters@xxxxxxxxxxx on Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:13:05 -0400
>     The e-mail system was unable to deliver the message, but did not
> report a specific reason.  Check the address and try again.  If it still
> fails, contact your system administrator.
>     <exchange.katana.local #4.0.0 smtp;450 <exchange.katana.local>: Helo
> command rejected: Host not found>

Your mail system is not set up properly.  It tries to send email messages to
the FreeBSD.org domain with an envelope address whose domain (shown above as
``exchange.katana.local'') does not resolve to an IP address.

If you need help with configuring your mail system to ``masquerade''
internal addresses to real-world addresses, that are acceptable as
envelope-from addresses by FreeBSD.org, don't hesitate to contact me
directly, in one of my non-FreeBSD addresses:

	keramida@xxxxxxxx
	keramida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
	keramida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Regards,
Giorgos

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