Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Vijay Sankar
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you wanted mail from www.example.com addressed to u...@example.com to go to a specific mail server and not be delivered to a local account. Did not clue in that you were using example.com to refer to ALL domains, not just your own domain. Vijay Sankar ForeTell

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:11:36PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: | > - change PTR records to www.example.com | | I'd really go with this. That's what I'll do if I can't resolve this in another (nice) way... | http://weldon.whipple.org/sendmail/removew.html discusses this and gives |

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:32:46AM -0400, Vijay Sankar wrote: | mailertable should work in this case, I think. That's not how I read the comments in /etc/mail/mailertable: # The sendmail(8) mailer table is used to override routing for particular # non-local hostnames and domains (i.e., names oth

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:40:11PM +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote: | Are you sure this is becaus of the PTR record (according to the subject of | your email)? I think sendmail looks up the A and MX record for | example.com and sees that the A record is a local IP. Yes, I'm sure. I'm moving this do

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Jiri B
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:40:11PM +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote: > Are you sure this is becaus of the PTR record (according to the subject of > your email)? I think sendmail looks up the A and MX record for > example.com and sees that the A record is a local IP. > So, do you need the A record for

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Vijay Sankar
mailertable should work in this case, I think. Vijay Sankar ForeTell Technologies Limited vsan...@foretell.ca Sent from my iPhone On 2013-03-21, at 7:23 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > For the sendmail heroes out there... Let's say I have the following > in DNS: > > $ORIGIN example.com. > @

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:23:18PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: >For the sendmail heroes out there... Let's say I have the following >in DNS: > >$ORIGIN example.com. >@ IN MX 10 mx1 >@ IN A 192.0.2.1 >@ IN 2001:db8::1 >mx1IN A 192

Re: sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Paul de Weerd writes: > For the sendmail heroes out there... Let's say I have the following > in DNS: > > $ORIGIN example.com. > @ IN MX 10 mx1 > @ IN A 192.0.2.1 > @ IN 2001:db8::1 > mx1 IN A 192.0.2.2 > mx1 IN 2001:

sendmail stops remote delivery when PTR for local IP points to domain-part

2013-03-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
For the sendmail heroes out there... Let's say I have the following in DNS: $ORIGIN example.com. @ IN MX 10 mx1 @ IN A 192.0.2.1 @ IN 2001:db8::1 mx1 IN A 192.0.2.2 mx1 IN 2001:db8::2 www IN A