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nac-nac
07-20-2001, 12:20 PM
I'm making a backup machine of a web server. Both machines have RH 7.0 installed.

The second machine (backup) is functioning ok, I can ping, ftp, telnet, and serve pages with apache.

Since both machines are basically the same, I pulled the sendmail.cf file from the server (which is known to be good) and put it on the second machine.

The problem is that all messages from the second machine are getting Data Format Errors.

root receives notification that states the following (regarding the error) :

Diagnostic-Code: SMTP 501 5.1.8... Domain of sender address does not exist.

I've combed through linuxconf and verified that my hostname and other paremeters are correct (the difference betweeen the two machines is the IP and hostname, which again I can ping and serve pages from the machine so no problem there... i think).

Help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

nac-nac
07-20-2001, 12:34 PM
i fixed this by changing the Smart Relay Host to a different mail server. works fine now.