Judson Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a firewall with qmail installed and is set up as a dumb relayer
> for domain.com to another, internal qmail server. This is working
> perfectly.
Good.
> The inside mail server, (NAT also) is host.domain.com,
> and has this in its /var/qmail/control/locals file:
>
> domain.com
> host.domain.com
> localhost.domain.com
>
> However, if I try to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> the mail server bounces it back to the firewall, which
> bounces it back to the mail server, and etc., with the
> mail server eventually giving up with this error:
[...]
Did you restart qmail-send after changing locals?
Show us the unedited output of qmail-showctl, and the real bounce
message -- don't obscure your domain information.
> ...so it appears that my internal mail server doesn't know who
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
We can't tell if you obscure this.
> rcpthosts has many entries, as essentially I use qmail on the
> internal server as a relay (which is fine since it's behind
> the firewall) allowing me to e-mail out to anyone I like
> (otherwise it gives me the standard rcpthosts error - which is also
> probably indicative of the mail server not understanding what
> domain it's supposed to be within).
Nope. This is indicative that you have failed to understand the purpose
of the rcpthosts file. You want to enable selective relaying -- search
the list archives.
The rcpthosts file should only list domains for which you are
responsible for mail, not domains you want to send mail to.
> /etc/hosts file has:
Doesn't matter. As is well documented, qmail never uses /etc/hosts.
Ever.
> My only guess is that somehow, since I'm running NAT, and that the
> nattd IPs aren't technically part of the domain, that the mail server
> isn't getting the right answer on the domain resolution. In sum, it's
> a DNS problem via NAT.
I think it's a much more basic configuration error.
Charles
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