sendmail server not sending mails to domain with "-" hyphen

jatinkumar · 03-01-2012, 12:16 AM

dear friends .. is it by default or come thing i am missing .. sendmail server is not able to send mails to domains having hypen in their name .. please advice how this can be sorted out .. thanks for the time and help
happiness always
Jatin

deep27ak · 03-01-2012, 12:19 AM

Hello jatin

A little more information will be useful
please tell us your distro
post the error you are getting

Code:

#tail -20 /var/log/messages
#tail -20 /var/log/maillog

Code:

#sendmail -v (userid)
(post the output)

jatinkumar · 03-01-2012, 12:28 AM

hmmm.. will send that.. i just tried to send the mails to other mail ids without - and it works perfect.. but with - i dont have any domain,.. our client is doing the test and sending the mail to their client having - in their domain .. any thing u want mi to check
error was
Message: SmtpException - Could not send mail with ApplicationId : 10124 - ToAddress : abc.xyz@domain-name.com due to: Mailbox name not allowed. The server response was: 5.1.8 <info@domain.MU>... Domain of sender address info@domain.MU does not exist Smtp Status Code: MailboxNameNotAllowed

deep27ak · 03-01-2012, 01:09 AM

Is that a valid domain name you are using with a hyphen?

or it seems your server is unable to resolve that domain name

Code:

#dig your-domain.com

do you get a authoritative answer on server

follow this link might be helpful
http://www.elandsys.com/resources/se...smarthost.html

jatinkumar · 03-01-2012, 01:22 AM

ok i just did the DIG and didnt got any answer .. tried the dig with yahoo domain got answer... then did nslookup on windows machine for the same domain.. got answer... that means my windows machine is able to resolve

and above error in last line also says MailboxNameNotAllowed