From: Jim Turner (jimt@netins.net)                                             
Subject: Re: 553 Domain name required                                          
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail                                                 
Date: 2000/01/03                                                               

Neil (and Sam),

   You were both correct, stating that MH was the cause.  We had
installed a newer version of MH in June, but failed to realize that
we were still using the OS' default MH located in /usr/bin instead
of where we were looking at (/usr/local/bin).  The OS default
was for 6.7.  Once I removed those files and linked the new files,
using 6.8.3 made everybody happy.

    Thanx again for the assistance.

_______________
Jim Turner
Systems Administration
netINS, Inc.
jimt@netins.net


Neil W Rickert wrote:

> Jim Turner <jimt@netins.net> writes:
>
> >I am in need of some help.  This problem has plagued me
> >before and I've never found an answer. 
> >It seems to involve MH more than any other mailhandler, but
> >it has happened in pine, elm, etc.  I get the above mentioned
> >error (553 Domain name required).  Here's the setup. 
> >Upgrading from 8.8.8 to 8.9.3.  Everything is going swimmingly
> >(testing via telnetting directly to port 25 shows all is well).  Sending 
> >from mh gives me this: 
> >post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 553 <jimt>... Domain name
> >required
> >send: message not delivered to anyone
>
> I believe this is a problem with how you built MH.  Either that, or
> you have a very old version.
>
> As a work around, you might be able to set
>         postproc: /usr/lib/mh/spost
> in your '.mh_profile'.  Check the path, and whether 'spost' exists
> before trying this.