"Anuerin G. Diaz" wrote:
>
> hi femme,
>
> again i would like to ask for your help. i already posted this to the
> local LUG but have not received any reply for the past two days and i
> sort of need this while i have the free time. thanks...
>
> =====================
> to the list members,
>
> this is the post that i sent to the Philippine LUG and have not
> received any response which means either the experienced users are not
> yet in or they think this is to simple to be solved by RTFM.
> unfortunately i dont know much about MTAs. i know this is RH specific
> but this is what i have to work on and i have to do this in order to
> start my little 'open source/information-technology awareness campaign'
> and start pushing GNU/Linux (especially Mandrake) to some of my
> '{un|mis}informed' colleagues.
>
> i will be grateful to any replies that will come my way and ,if i do
> have some questions, i may have to ask you directly because of my
> problems with posting to the list.
>
> thank you very much!
>
> =====================
>
> since i had no reply from my post yesterday about relaying mail to a
> redhat server, i delved into the Mail-Administrator how-to but still
> cant figure out some things. here is the scenario
>
> [SCENARIO]
> we have a Exchange server here at the office named exchange.msi.net.ph
> which handles all of our mailing needs (except that it has no
> reverse-lookup capabilities).
>
> i am setting up a local mailing list on a RedHat 7.2 server (named here
> as gateway) with sendmail-8.11.6-3. i have set-up Mailman with relative
> success. i can send mail to the employees using the exchange server
> by using the commandline mail utility. Mailman could also send
> notifications even to outside accounts. what i cannot do is to have the
> redhat server receive mails for [user]@gateway.msi.net.ph. i tried
> sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with testuser set in the
> /etc/aliases file as
>
> testuser: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> but the mail bounces back with exchange saying that the user is not
> recognized.
>
> [quote]
> Your message
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: test
> Sent: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:19:05 +0800
>
> did not reach the following recipient(s):
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 28 May 2002 10:20:35 +0800
> The recipient name is not recognized
> <snipped server specific ids>
> Unknown Recipient
>
> [/quote]
>
> now i dont know whats wrong but my theory is that either
>
> 1) the exchange is not relaying the mail to the gateway server (but i
> can access http://gateway.msi.net.ph without difficulty so that rules
> out name resolution).
>
> or
>
> 2) i dont have a receiving application on the RH server's end. can you
> suggest any steps that i have not taken?
>
> =====================
>
> ciao!
>
> --
>
> "Programming, an artform that fights back."
>
> =============================
> Anuerin G. Diaz
> Design Engineer
> Millennium Software, Incorporated
> 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center,
> Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City
>
> Tel# 637-4634 loc. 75
> Fax# 637-4679
> =============================
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