On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:10:36PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:38:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> >I'm trying to b[ounce] a message and I'm getting the following error
> >on the mutt status line:-
> >
> >    SMTP session failed: 550 Sender <chris@> invalid
> >
> >So what is it saying?  Obviously "Chris@" id invalid but how is mutt
> >creating it and what is missing such that mutt can't create a valid
> >address?
> 
> It looks like Mutt is not able to automatically determine the FQDN
> for your host by inspecting /etc/resolv.conf.  The easiest solution
> is to manually set your $from or $hostname:
> 
>       set from=u...@example.com
>       set hostname=example.com
> 
That was my line of thinking but.....

    "hostname -fqdn" returns chris.isbd.net which is correct
    
and /etc/resolv.conf is:-

    domain isbd.net
    search isbd.net
    nameserver 192.168.1.2

However I've just realised that I removed the record for
chris.isbd.net from the zone file for isbd.net at my hosting provider,
would the non-existence of chris.isbd.net break things?

-- 
Chris Green

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