No, that is not the solution. It could be, but it's not what I want.
An example:
domain: domain.com
domain.com is hosted on server B. The MX record for domain.com says that server A handles the mail of domain.com. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be handled by server A.
This works, but now on server B there runs a script that sends an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . What SHOULD happen is that sendmail on server B looks up the MX record for domain.com, sees that server A handles the mail for domain.com and sends the mail to server A. What happens is that sendmail recognizes the domain as hosted on that machine and uses localhost to deliver the mail. It looks for user gerard (in this example), which doesn't exist.
I agree with you, a solution would be to set in the alias file of server B something like gerard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If this was about just one e-mailaddress, it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm actually talking about a little more then one address.
So that's not a good solution for me.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hexren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gerard Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: get local sendmail to use MX records
GM> Hi,
GM> I have the following situation:
GM> I have moved my mail services from my dedicated server to another server. The MX records were updated at the DNS host to point to the other server. Email from the outside is being routed
GM> correctly to the new server, but now the local scripts on the dedicated server are still being routed to the local accounts and not actually sent to the other server.
GM> So sendmail on the first server tries to use localhost as a relay, instead of looking up the MX records for the domain.
GM> Anybody knows how to solve this?
GM> Thanks!
GM> Gerard
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Quick and dirty: /etc/mail/aliases putting in something like "root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should do the trick. Or am I missing something ?
Hexren
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