On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0000, Louis Mushandu wrote:
> All,
>
> I cannot get qmail to accept messages from the outside, i posted a missive
> before and the replies that I got whilst swift and appreciated have not
> resolved by problem.
>
> The recieved error message is
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.mongrel.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
> it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)
>
> I was using ./Maildir/ but I have now changed to Mailbox in desperation.
> My locals files is populated with mail.wonder.com, but still no cigar for
> me.
[snip]
> virtualdomains
> ::::::::::::::
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bad virtualdomains file format, fix per man qmail-send. Check the
output of qmail-showctl to ensure that mail.wonder.com is being
registered by qmail as local.
Also, "mail" is a pretty lame name for any host, read
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt>.
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