Re: [cobalt-users] Email nightmare

["Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I'd like you to do is make this question a little more vague. Be sure
to leave out the essential details like what this script is trying to do and
why it is sending email.

Looking into my crystal ball and taking a wild stab, I'd say that the CGI
script is running as user abc on your server, which has a host name of
server1. User abc, however, is set up on mysite.com. Sendmail then puts two
and two together and says, hey, the user sending this email is
abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Then it tries to resolve server1.mysite.com and
figures out that there is no dns set up for such an animal. Then it spits
out the error message telling you so. I assume mysite.com is your home
virtual site on the raq (the very first one set up). You should create an A
record for server1.mysite.com, and sendmail will cease to complain.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webguroo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Email nightmare


> I am having difficulty getting a CGI script running.  It now appears to
run,
> but when I send an email, it returns this error message to me.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> The original message was received at Tue, 25 Dec 2001 18:08:09 -0800
> from abc@localhost
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> webguroo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     (reason: 501 5.1.8 Domain of sender address
> abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx does not exist)
>
> =================================
>
> This is not making sense to me.  abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the
> RAQ server, but I have set up a domain with a different IP with an account
> at
> abc@xxxxxxxxxx    The CGI is sending email to a totally different email
> address.
> What am I not understanding here?
>
> Paul Wilson
> webguroo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
>
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