Ryan Parlee writes:
Arg! Nevermind my last message, sorry. I really do try and fix this stuff on my own without bothering the list. I could swear I checked it severaltimes but postini.ourdomain.com was not added to esmtpacceptmailfor.I also needed to use the original sendmail and not courier's sendmail. I installed Courier from the RPM this time and it apparently overwrites/usr/sbin/sendmail.Still a nagging question, though: Why doesn't courier's sendmail work? Isthis by design?
It's really not possible to answer your questions accurately. This is because instead of posting a copy of your real configuration data, you for some reason replace it with a make-believe, imaginary output of a random number generator, such as “postini.ourdomain.com”. ourdomain.com is registered to an organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, which is unlikely to be you.
If you want someone to help you with figuring out your configuation issues, you should post real data: real contents of your configuration files, real copies of your syslog, etc…
All that I can tell you are two things.1) For any mail recipient address of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, if “domain” is listed in your locals or hosteddomains file, the address is treated as a local mailbox; which must exist or the recipient is rejected as nonexistent. If “domain” is not listed, it is presumed to be a remote address and mail gets delivered via SMTP. It does not matter where the message came from, via SMTP or if it originates locally and gets submitted via sendmail.
2) If something got overwritten when you installed an RPM it means that you have other software that you installed manually, without using rpm. Rpm will prevent you from overwriting files that are owned by some other package. That's one of the reasons to use rpm. Always use rpm to install software. Do not install anything without using rpm.
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