Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:40:26 +0100 (CET) From: "Lars Kristiansen" <lars@adventuras.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get local sendmail to use MX records Message-ID: <58023.213.236.228.129.1109194826.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no> In-Reply-To: <0d7701c519d0$794cdea0$9600000a@guus> References: <0d6501c519cd$01466d70$9600000a@guus> <124566255.20050223183027@hexren.net> <0d7701c519d0$794cdea0$9600000a@guus>
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> No, that is not the solution. It could be, but it's not what I want. > > An example: > > domain: domain.com > domain.com is hosted on server B. The MX record for domain.com says that > server A handles the mail of domain.com. So anyname@domain.com should be > handled by server A. Do you mean that your /bin/hostname show "domain.com" and not "machine.domain.com"? Anyway, you may have the option to bury the problem by using smart_host and mail_hub: like this in sendmail.mc: define(`SMART_HOST',`serverA.domain.com.')dnl define(`MAIL_HUB',`serverA.domain.com.')dnl -- Hilsen Lars > > This works, but now on server B there runs a script that sends an e-mail > to > gerard@domain.com . What SHOULD happen is that sendmail on server B looks > up > the MX record for domain.com, sees that server A handles the mail for > domain.com and sends the mail to server A. What happens is that sendmail > recognizes the domain as hosted on that machine and uses localhost to > deliver the mail. It looks for user gerard (in this example), which > doesn't > exist. > > I agree with you, a solution would be to set in the alias file of server B > something like gerard: root@serverA.com . If this was about just one > e-mailaddress, it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm actually talking about a > little more then one address. > > So that's not a good solution for me. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hexren" <me@hexren.net> > To: "Gerard Meijer" <gmeijer@palmweb.nl> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:30 PM > Subject: Re: get local sendmail to use MX records > > >> GM> Hi, >> >> GM> I have the following situation: >> >> GM> I have moved my mail services from my dedicated server to another >> server. The MX records were updated at the DNS host to point to the >> other >> server. Email from the outside is being routed >> GM> correctly to the new server, but now the local scripts on the >> dedicated server are still being routed to the local accounts and not >> actually sent to the other server. >> >> GM> So sendmail on the first server tries to use localhost as a relay, >> instead of looking up the MX records for the domain. >> >> GM> Anybody knows how to solve this? >> >> GM> Thanks! >> >> GM> Gerard >> GM> _______________________________________________ >> GM> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> GM> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> GM> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> >> Quick and dirty: /etc/mail/aliases >> putting in something like "root: root@example.com" should do the >> trick. Or am I missing something ? >> >> Hexren >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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