That's another incident of nameservers not resolving braille.uwo.ca properly. I wonder what's going on here. One tends to use the DNS issued by the ISP and if that's not reliable then the academic bar is thus raised for us linux users to build a nameserver of our own. -----Original Message----- From: Frank Carmickle [mailto:frankiec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:25 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail problem Hi Mike First thing that should be fixed is you getting a reasonable nameserver. This should clear up the problems. You really don't want to change much in the way of sendmail configuration because you don't want to open yourself up as a relay for spam. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mike keithley wrote: > This is probably off topic but the problem occurs getting mail from this > list so I thought I'd ask the experts. > > I use fetchmail to get mail from shellworld.net (my ISP). Fetchmail > negotiates with sendmail to get mail into my local mailbox. Sendmail seems to > want to verify that the sender domain is valid and checks a route. > the intermittent problem is this: -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
