sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

[Chuck Swiger]

Srot BULL wrote:
[ ... ]
   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <srotbull at yahoo.com>
>     (reason: 554 <srotbull at yahoo.com>: Relay access denied)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to vc.point.ne.jp.:
> 
>>>>DATA
> 
> <<< 554 <srotbull at yahoo.com>: Relay access denied
> 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> <<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
> 
> It seems that I was not allowed to relay my email so I tried the
> archives and then I tried reading the README file
> at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
> and found something about:
> 
> Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> I read a little and did what I understood:
> 1) created a /etc/mail/authinfo file with the following
> AuthInfo:point.ne.jp "U:myusername" "I:myusername" "P:password"
> AuthInfo:me.point.ne.jp "U:myusername" "I:myusername" "P:password"

Your configuration seems to be going in the right direction, so you ought to 
discuss this error with postmaster at point.ne.jp so they can either change 
things to permit relaying, or figure out what you need to adjust.

-- 
-Chuck