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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 18:26:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! MX record stopping sendmail working?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105161823590.25239-100000@java2.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010517011257.93518.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com>

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On May 17, Keith Spencer wrote:
>I am building an new 4.2 machine to replace a 3.2
>machine. I have simple copied the namedb directory
>(with permissions) over to the new machine but
>sendmail reports....
>smmc.qld.edu.au MX record points back to
>smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au 
>The mail server (smmcroute) is the dns server
>(secondary dns...the isp is our primary) hmmm...
>any ideas?
>I have created a sendmail.cw file since the old system
>had one because mail wouldn't work without it.
>I notice with 4.2 the mail configs are now in
>/etc/mail...OK

The latest sendmail calls sendmail.cw local-host-names
(this was actually changed quite a while back)

Check in your sendmail.cf for the line

# file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names

to double check the location

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
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