On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:53:28 -0600, Steve Price <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thanks for the reply but since I don't use sendmail this can't
>be a sendmail issue in my case at least.  I use postfix.

Sorry, I made an incorrect assumption.  However, the explanation is the same.
The outbound MTA accepting the BSMTP mail 'package' from LISTSERV (regardless
of what program it is) must accept the entire 'package' (*.MAIL file) without
question, and without performing any validation, domain lookups, or whatever,
during the period that LISTSERV is sending.  Any such validation should be
done later, after initial acceptance, and generally while the MTA is
attempting to deliver the mail onwards to its final desitination.

The Outbound SMTP mailer in LISTSERV is very simple minded and cannot deal
with 450 responses, and other forms of errors and will not manage its own
errors and retries at this point in the process.  Those are all MTA functions
that should rightfully be performed by the MTA and not by LISTSERV.

In sendmail, the FEATURE(noncanonify) accomplishes this.  There is some other
setting for Postfix, and still another setting for Qmail, and still another
setting for other popular unix mailers.  If I knew what they all were I'd tell
you.


>450 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found
>450 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found
>450 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found
>450 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found

These are all non-existent domains.  You can safely just delete all these.
The simplest fix for this is modify your go.user (add this line if it doesn't
exist, modify if it does exist):

...
RUNMODE="TABLELESS SWGATE.LSOFT.COM"
export RUNMODE
...