From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 8:18:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sstar.com (sstar.com [209.102.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA3C156A7 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 08:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from JKING ([134.132.78.137]) by sstar.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.5s/64) id 6338900; Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:17:57 -0600 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991104101716.02300680@mail.sstar.com> X-Sender: king@mail.sstar.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:17:57 -0600 To: "Jerry Bell" , From: Jim King Subject: Re: sendmail oddity? In-Reply-To: <039101bf2679$694f5b90$4a99d6d8@netrex.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991104094810.00aec8c0@mail.sstar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah, it looks like the fix is to use sendmail's DontProbeInterfaces option. This makes everything work as I want. Jim At 11:02 PM 11/3/1999 -0500, Jerry Bell wrote: >Remove domain.com from sendmail.cw on the computer hosting www.domain.com. > >Jerry >http://www.bellnetworks.net/cs >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jim King >To: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message