Kolab not sending External Mails

Jon Bendtsen jon at kollegiegaarden.dk
Thu May 13 11:16:53 CEST 2004


Den 13. maj 2004, kl. 11:08, skrev Stephen Hind:

> Excellent the fetchmail works a treat!  Thanks for that!
>
> Now for sending:
> I know postfix is working properly now as I have found the log.  and
> whenever I send a mail the log says it is sent OK, to quote 
> "status=sent
> (250 2.1.5 Ok)".
>
> I now know why the mails do not reach the internet recipient as the 
> server
> the mail goes to responds:
> "Sender domain must exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command)"
>
> I presume this happens as I'm not using a FQDN as I don't have one.  
> Can I
> use my public IP address?  When I try to use the public IP address as 
> the
> Mail Domain I can't send any mails at all.  Postfix says I have "Bad 
> Syntax"
> in my client's address settings.
>
> Any further ideas would be appreciated, and Many thanks for the help 
> so far.

use example.com as your domain. You can always send with that.
Beyond that, get your own domain, or make a fake internal one.

(you can send with any domain you want, just like you can put a fake 
sender address on snailmail)


JonB




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