Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:02:28 -0500 From: "Jerry Bell" <jerry@bellnetworks.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jim King" <king@sstar.com> Subject: Re: sendmail oddity? Message-ID: <039101bf2679$694f5b90$4a99d6d8@netrex.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991104094810.00aec8c0@mail.sstar.com>
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Remove domain.com from sendmail.cw on the computer hosting www.domain.com. Jerry http://www.bellnetworks.net/cs ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:52 AM Subject: sendmail oddity? > I'm hosting a web site, e.g. for www.domain.com. "domain.com"'s DNS has > been setup with A records for domain.com and www.domain.com that are the > same IP address. The MX record for domain.com points to mail.domain.com, > which is another machine. > > If I try to send mail from the web server to the user sales@domain.com, > sendmail tries to deliver the message to the local user sales. It looks > like it's seeing that domain.com is a local address, so it doesn't bother > looking for the MX record for domain.com. Is there any way around this > without changing the DNS setup (which is out of my control)? > > Jim > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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