Would adding a 2nd IP address to that machine and telling qmail to use
that addr work?? Make appropriate changes to MX records.....
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>From: Scott Gifford[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:10 AM
>To: peter green
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: qmail/sendmail coexistance
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>peter green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> I have a client that has been using sendmail and some proprietary
>>management
>> interface. He's very comfortable with it, but it isn't the best performer
>> for a mass mailer, which he is also doing on the same machine. I have
>> installed qmail on there, and he is extremely happy. Except...
>>
>> whenever qmail is chugging along and encounters an email address with a
>> domain hosted on that machine (by the sendmail configuration) qmail can't
>> deliver it. I've tried w/ the domain *not* in locals, virtualdomains,
>> rcpthosts, &c. w/ no luck. I tried putting ``domain:[127.0.0.1]'' in
>> smtproutes w/ no luck.
>>
>> I have temporarily lost access to the server in question, so I don't have a
>> good example bounce. I will post again later once I have that info, but I
>> wanted to know if anyone had any initial thoughts on what I'm seeing. Seen
>> it before? Does it sound wrong, like a misconfiguration on my part?
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>The problem might be that qmail sees that the MX record for the
>domains in question pointing to the IP address of the machine it's
>running on, so to prevent mail loops, it refuses to connect to itself.
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>If this is the problem, the bounce message will say:
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>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)
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>If this is what's happening, hack ipme.c so that it doesn't add
>anything at all to the list of local IP addresses. There is no other
>way around this problem, besides putting qmail on a different machine
>than sendmail.
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>----ScottG.
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