unable to reach bsd-lists via mail

[Daniel Staal]

On Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:53:57 AM Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent
> will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar
> mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-(
> 
> I usually send mail from the domain cruwe.de with the mail-server
> mail.cruwe.de.
> 
> My configration is as such, that
> 
> $ host cruwe.de
> cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98
> cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de.
> 
> and
> 
> $ host mail.cruwe.de
> mail.cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98
> mail.cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de.
[snip]
> 
> seems to be OK.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what could be the issue?
> 
> Thank you, cheers

What does you mailer return as the hostname?  (Not the box on which your 
mailer is runing, but the mail server itself.  Often it can be set 
seperately.)  The FreeBSD lists are picky about having that match the DNS 
entries for your domain.

Daniel T. Staal

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