mail send error!!!help me!!

[Paul_416]

The original message was received at Mon,7 Jun 2004 14:44:35 +0800 from[221.216.107.33]

---- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ------
Yamashita.shujiro@CHN.XEROX.COM
(reason:501.5.0.0 Disallowed name in HELO/EHLO:localhost.localdomain)

---- Transcript of session follows -----
451 4.4.1 reply:read error from sgpaghq-coi2.sgp.xerox.com.
451 4.4.1 reply:read error from chnhkgcp3-bh01.hkg.xerox.com.
....while talking to mailer-east.xerox.com.:
>>>HELO localhost.localdomain
<<<501 5.0.0 Disallowed name in HELO/EHLO: localhost.localdomain
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

Any suggestions or comments?

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Paul,

check this one as a starter http://nemesis.lonestar.org/site/mail_trouble.html

JP

[Paul_416]

can't open net page

[Jeroen Peereboom]

I can open the page.
I found it using google.

JP

[Geoff Wild]

Sounds like your DNS / resolver isn't setup right:

The domain name given in the HELO/EHLO command MUST BE either a primary host name (a domain name that resolves to an A RR).

You are sending as localhost.localdomain

If using sendmail, then add to the DM macro in sendmail.cf:

DMyourdomain.com

Rgds...Geoff

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

You set your HP-UX like as a "gateway" mail server, So you need configuring the "Smart relay host" feature defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. For this you must be set DS variable:
DS

Where will be your smtp engine server and must be reachable from your HP-UX server. You can define this alias into /etc/file, and test it by ping command.

Then restart the sendmail service:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

To try send an email from your HP-UX server to any valid domain address, i.e:
#echo "Hi, this is a test"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -v Yamashita.shujiro@CHN.XEROX.COM

Where "-v" option is the verbose option and allow you make a sending debug.

Any undeliveriable email will stored into dead letter file.

Rgds.