Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:45:45 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail and named Message-ID: <20000621234545.D43715@pool0586.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000621225608.6953A-100000@sloth>; from doc@wcug.wwu.edu on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:09:17PM -0700 References: <20000621224042.C43715@pool0586.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000621225608.6953A-100000@sloth>
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:09:17PM -0700, David Daugherty wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:13:27PM -0700, David Daugherty wrote: [snip] > > > Jun 21 22:02:39 truman sendmail[20279]: WAA20279: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<user@Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com>, relay=sloth.wcug.wwu.edu > > > [140.160.164.200], reject=550 <user@Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com>... Relaying denied > > > Jun 21 22:02:39 truman sendmail[20279]: WAA20279: from=<doc@wcug.wwu.edu>, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, relay=sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200] > > > > > > I haven't taken a gander at configuring sendmail yet because I completely > > > screwed it up on my last 3.4 install. I'm now running 4.0-stable and would > > > like to get this one right. > > Your machine, for whatever reason, is not accepting mail for > > Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com. It thinks it needs to be relayed. > Ok, I haven't messed with /etc/sendmail.cf yet. It doesn't even exist on > my system. Is this the reason why it wants to relay? It's in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. > > > I messed up the sendmail stuff by trying to configure named to run on the > > > box so I could get email at the alias domain also <mydomainalias.dhs.org>. > > > Do I have to run named to accomplish this? Are there any good tutorials > > > out there for setting up named? My last attempt was reading through man > > > named and man sendmail. > > Alias domain? What are you trying to do? > The lame domain given to me by @home is the Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com. > Where the x's represent my account. So, I went to dhs.org and registered a > domain name <mydomain>.dhs.org where <mydomain> is my account. It used to > be when I had 3.4 installed that I could only recieve email at > <username>@Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com. If I tried to send it to the > alias domain name I created, <username>@<mydomain>.dhs.org it would > bounce. They both share the same IP but the DNS 1 hop up from me probably > couldn't resolve it. So, I tried to set up my own named and screwed > everything up. Yeah, sounds like it would. Don't like your <user>@home.com name? If you are using the default sendmail.cf, I believe all you need to do is put the domains in sendmail.cw, $ cat /etc/mail/sendmail.cw Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com <yourdomain>.dhs.org That is, provided you've got your MX record properly set for your DNS record. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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