Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

>       Hello Glynn,  I seem to have something amiss in my thoughts
>       about how secondary email is setup .  I am attempting to verify
>       the setup of filesrv2(aka ns2) as a secondary MX host .  I am
>       using the Sendmail book's example on how to test this IE:
> 
> mail -s"test backup mailserver"
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] <~/junk
> 
>       This produces ( this is not the full transcript )
> 
>  ...snip...
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
>  ...snip...
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to filesrv2.baby-dragons.com.:
> >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <<< 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
> 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown
>  ...snip...
> 
>       All I can see is that filesrv2 doesn't know how to process 
>       the '%' hack as the book puts it .

Try using the user@host@relay form, e.g.

        [EMAIL PROTECTED]@filesrv2.baby-dragons.com

-- 
Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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