From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 8: 4: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wally.bellnetworks.net (www.bellnetworks.net [216.214.153.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C075F14C58 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 08:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerry@bellnetworks.net) Received: from itbell (alice.bellnetworks.net [216.214.153.74]) by wally.bellnetworks.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA52445; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:02:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerry@bellnetworks.net) Message-ID: <039101bf2679$694f5b90$4a99d6d8@netrex.com> From: "Jerry Bell" To: , "Jim King" References: <4.2.0.58.19991104094810.00aec8c0@mail.sstar.com> Subject: Re: sendmail oddity? Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:02:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Remove domain.com from sendmail.cw on the computer hosting www.domain.com. Jerry http://www.bellnetworks.net/cs ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim King To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:52 AM Subject: sendmail oddity? > I'm hosting a web site, e.g. for www.domain.com. "domain.com"'s DNS has > been setup with A records for domain.com and www.domain.com that are the > same IP address. The MX record for domain.com points to mail.domain.com, > which is another machine. > > If I try to send mail from the web server to the user sales@domain.com, > sendmail tries to deliver the message to the local user sales. It looks > like it's seeing that domain.com is a local address, so it doesn't bother > looking for the MX record for domain.com. Is there any way around this > without changing the DNS setup (which is out of my control)? > > Jim > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message