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Date:      Sun, 19 May 2002 12:13:58 +1000
From:      Rob Secombe <robseco@teksupport.net.au>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail's virtusertable not respected
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020519121358.03b10aa0@mail.secombe>
In-Reply-To: <20020518214343.V42671-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>

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Hi,

You will need to add "domain.com" to /etc/mail/local-host-names

Cheers

Rob



At 21:54 18/05/02 -0400, Jason Hunt wrote:
>Hmmm, I've been fighting with this for an hour;
>
>I have a catchall in /etc/mail/virtusertable (this is the only entry
>actually) to send all mail for my domain to a local user, ie:
>
>@domain.com                     leth
>
>Looks good to me, but I am getting this in syslog:
>
>May 18 20:43:19 blap sm-mta[518]: g4J0gwPo000516: SYSERR(root):
>mail.domain.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
>
>I obviously have DNS setup properly because it's coming back to the
>machine.  However, it shouldn't be even making a connection to itself
>because the domain is in the virtusertable, so that would be searched
>first.  It just doesn't seem to think the line is in there.
>
>"Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable" is in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>
>I don't think it is a permissions problem on the virtuser table, because:
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    602 May 18 20:35 virtusertable
>I think it would also complain if it can't read the file.
>
>I am using the default .cf that comes with freebsd (4.6-RC from a day or
>two ago) which has sendmail 8.12.3.
>
>Any ideas where I can start looking for the cause of this?  I am
>somewhat familiar with sendmail, but never ran into this before.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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