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Date:      Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:04:56 -0700
From:      Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        fred <fred@fullmetalpacket.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?
Message-ID:  <47F29568.2020601@smartt.com>
In-Reply-To: <5886FD4F-65DA-4BD8-B5E7-707BA97E34BF@dpcsys.com>
References:  <47F149A8.4030509@smartt.com> <004a01c89384$7cbebbe0$763c33a0$@com> <5886FD4F-65DA-4BD8-B5E7-707BA97E34BF@dpcsys.com>

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Dan Busarow wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:11 PM, fred wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am having the exact same problem with a server running 
>> FreeBSD-7.0.
>>
>> The hostname is : server1.mydomain.com
>> MX for mydomain.com is not server1.
>>
>> sendmail -v user@mydomain.com < test.msg will result in user unknown
>>
>> but
>>
>> sendmail -v anotheruser@anotherdomain.com < test.msg will work.
>>
>> If anyone knows how to get around this?
>
> In your .mc file
>
> define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `true')
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris St Denis
>> Sent: 31 mars 2008 16:29
>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> Subject: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?
>>
>> I've setup a new web server hostname doremi.ctgameinfo.com. When I try
>> to send mail to username@ctgameinfo.com it tries to deliver it locally
>> instead of to the mx server mx1.ctgameinfo.com.
>>
>> In previous versions this seems to work correctly. Why would it be
>> trying to deliver locally this time? I'm running default sendmail config
>> that comes with the standard install.
>>
>>
>> Another server I have seems to have this problem even worse. It's a web
>> server, and for any of the hundreds of domains hosted on it (www A
>> records pointed at it, but MX records pointed elseware) it also tries to
>> deliver locally. I was able to get this mostly working by using a
>> smarthost to the actual mail server, but I don't understand why it would
>> be ignoring the mx records.
>>
>> I've never had problems like these with previous versions. What has 
>> changed?
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Thanks, this seems to have fixed the problem.



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