On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 02:04 -0800, jim martin wrote: > Hi.. I just installed sendmail in RH Ent and I had > ensure that the sendmail program is running and > outgoing DNS and SMTP is permit to internet. > > But I tried to sendmail outgoing mail to my yahoo > account using the syntax > > mail -s "4 test" jimmartin@xxxxxxxxx < /var/test.txt > > /var/test.txt is a test file containing test "this is > a test" > > I got the following bounched back mail in > /var/spool/mail/root. What's wrong? Is my syntax > wrong? or do I need to change the default sendmail.mc > file to make it works??? > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.: > >>> MAIL From:<root@rbox> SIZE=318 > <<< 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments > 501 5.6.0 Data format error rbox is not a fully-qualified domain name. Use a resolvable hostname for your machine and it should be OK. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
