Problem sending mail to verizon.net account
 

My linux box isn't able to send mail to any verizon.net email account. The best i can figure out is that it doesn't like the return address.

The return address my machine uses is <user>@tourian.foresthills.sad12.k12.me.us

How do i go about changing the setup so i can mask the return address with some other email?

It's doing a reverse dns check to see whether your mail address owns the ip number...

Do dig -x yr.ip.number and see if your dns reverse zone is setup correctly...

I get this:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -x 169.244.126.100
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40425
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;100.126.244.169.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
100.126.244.169.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR tourian.foresthills.sad12.k12.me.us.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
244.169.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS nameo.unet.maine.edu.
244.169.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS namep.unet.maine.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nameo.unet.maine.edu. 86400 IN A 130.111.32.11
namep.unet.maine.edu. 86400 IN A 130.111.130.7

;; Query time: 17 msec
;; SERVER: 130.111.32.11#53(130.111.32.11)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 14 14:54:16 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 181

Is it set up correctly? I don't need to receive email back to the machine. Its a message board and a cgi script on my website that are trying to send emails.

oh, and it sends emails beautifully to any of my other email addresses.

It gives me this error: Error 450: Sender Domain Not Compliant with RFC 822 / Verify the Return Address

Is there ANY way i can change what my return address is?