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  • Odd system identity report

    From bob prohaska@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 8 02:57:44 2023
    Running
    sendmail -d0.1 reports
    ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
    (short domain name) $w = www
    (canonical domain name) $j = www.zefox.net
    (subdomain name) $m = zefox.net
    (node name) $k = www.zefox.net

    The short domain name looks wrong to me, as it's actually
    the hostname.

    Does it matter? The machine seems to send and receive mail
    just fine, but at least one sender refused to communicate
    with it.

    The host runs FreeBSD 12-stable, with sendmail from ports.

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to bob prohaska on Sat Apr 8 01:29:29 2023
    bob prohaska wrote:

    (short domain name) $w = www

    The short domain name looks wrong to me, as it's actually
    the hostname.

    just different terminology... doc/op/op.*:
    $w# The hostname of this site. This is the root name
    of this host (but see below for caveats).

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 8 09:47:05 2023
    Am 08.04.2023 um 02:57:44 Uhr schrieb bob prohaska:

    Does it matter? The machine seems to send and receive mail
    just fine, but at least one sender refused to communicate
    with it.

    You need to give more information about that situation.

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  • From bob prohaska@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Mon Apr 10 04:05:28 2023
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
    Am 08.04.2023 um 02:57:44 Uhr schrieb bob prohaska:

    Does it matter? The machine seems to send and receive mail
    just fine, but at least one sender refused to communicate
    with it.

    You need to give more information about that situation.

    Alas, I don't have any. Mail from the sender didn't arrive
    unless it was sent to a different address which then forwarded
    mail to my host in question. The sender never mentioned any
    error messages and since we could communicate I never followed
    up.

    Thanks to both respondents, it appears this dog can remain
    asleep.

    bob prohaska

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Mon Apr 10 04:51:07 2023
    Marco Moock wrote:

    You need to give more information about that situation.

    Which information do you think is required?

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    is too lazy to trim his article, and it's wasting the time of all readers.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 10 11:42:56 2023
    Am 10.04.2023 um 04:51:07 Uhr schrieb Claus Aßmann:

    Marco Moock wrote:

    You need to give more information about that situation.

    Which information do you think is required?

    Maybe he can ask the sender that refuses to connect for their log files.

    Some companies have wierd rules for their SMTP service.

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