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