Ok..i've been playing around with this for the past 2 hours and still its not doing what i'm expecting it to do ..(i just ordered the sendmail book from www.ora.com to help me too) i reconfigured sendmail to use mailertables(via sendmailconfig) and set /etc/mail/mailertable to include:
.aphroland.org smtp:firetrail.com .mac-resources.com smtp:firetrail.com but it appeaars it is ignoring the mailertable(i've restarted sendmail ~50 times) totally. it still refuses to send mail unless the user exists locally or the domain is not hosted/MX'd by me. another thing -- the domains themselves (i.e. the ip for aphroland.org) is hosted on galactica(the one with the problem) while the MX is on bebo(the mail server) does this introduce any odd things that may cause this to happen? i still think the mailertable should work..but apparently its not. *big sigh* thanks! nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind >On 2000-01-22 22:39:50, aphro wrote: wind > wind >> I have 2 machines that handle 99% of my accounts. 1 is acting mail wind >> server(bebo.firetrail.com) and the other does everything wind >> else(galactica.firetrail.com) wind >> wind >> all of the domains i host MX to mail.firetrail.com (which goes to wind >> bebo.firetrail.com). wind > wind >Ok. wind > wind >> wind >> on galactica.firetrail.com, if i mail to a user, and the user exists on wind >> the local machine, the mail system mails to that user (e.g. echo "test" | wind >> mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) however if the local user does NOT exist it wind >> returns "user unknown" this only appears to happen when the local user wind >> does not exist. although it shouldnt matter since no domains for mail are wind >> hosted on galactica.firetrail.com (other then galactica.firetrail.com) the wind >> system doesn't know to send the mail to wind >> bebo.firetrail.com(mail.firetrail.com) wind > wind >Clearly, you are hosting something on galactica, otherwise mail for wind >your "local" user would be forwarded to your other machine. What is wind >the mx record for galactica? Do you have a domain hosted on bebo and wind >some users from that domain on galactica? If so, you will need to wind >either accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] on galactica (and nothing else) or wind >rewrite their addresses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wind > wind >> any ideas?? i figure its a procmail thing..or is sendmail misconfigured? wind > wind >Almost definately a mta problem (e.g. sendmail). If the above doesn't wind >help I would need to see your sendmail config files (including wind >/etc/mailname). wind > wind > wind >/Allan wind >-- wind >Allan M. Wind Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wind >P.O. Box 2022 Phone: 781.279.4513 (home) wind >Woburn, MA 01888-0022 Phone: 781.274.7000 ext. 368 (work) wind > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 4:28pm up 157 days, 4:33, 2 users, load average: 1.06, 1.12, 1.09
