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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:47:39 -0400
From:      "Marius Kirschner" <marius@agoron.com>
To:        <mij@soupnazi.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: sendmail question
Message-ID:  <NEBBKGPPOLDBPJPLMKDIMEPBGJAA.marius@agoron.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010829193919.C84755@helios.soupnazi.org>

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It's local-host-names now.....but, yeah, I've tried it with the hostnames
defined and without and with the same results... I even set up a mailertable
pointing to the correct smtp server for those domains.

---Marius

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Mock [mailto:mij@soupnazi.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:39 PM
> To: Marius Kirschner
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: sendmail question
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 22:31:15 -0400, Marius Kirschner wrote:
> > What would cause sendmail trying to deliver mail to a local user if
> > the MX record points to a different mail server?  To explain further,
> > and I've been at this for over 2 weeks now.....
> >
> > I have a FreeBSD 4.3 box that hosts virtual web sites and if a mail is
> > entered on that box (mostly through a web form mailer) destined for an
> > virtual domain e-mail account it tries to deliver it locally.
> > Naturally, it bounces with an "user unknown" error message.
> >
> > Mail is delivered correctly when sent from anywhere but the box that
> > hosts the domain.  I'm clueless... :)
>
> Do you have those hosts in /etc/mail/local-host-names or in
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cw (what it used to be called)?  I'm not sure if this
> would cause it or not, it's been quite some time since I've done any
> virtual mail domains or used sendmail...
>
> - jim
>
> --
> jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org>              tech writer | iXsystems, Inc.
> http://soupnazi.org/         work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org
>


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