From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 23:56:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614E237C1B8 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from pool0617.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0425.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.170]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA07678; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0617.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA44391; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:45:45 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: David Daugherty Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail and named Message-ID: <20000621234545.D43715@pool0586.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000621224042.C43715@pool0586.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from doc@wcug.wwu.edu on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:09:17PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:09:17PM -0700, David Daugherty wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:13:27PM -0700, David Daugherty wrote: [snip] > > > Jun 21 22:02:39 truman sendmail[20279]: WAA20279: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=, relay=sloth.wcug.wwu.edu > > > [140.160.164.200], reject=550 ... Relaying denied > > > Jun 21 22:02:39 truman sendmail[20279]: WAA20279: from=, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, relay=sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.164.200] > > > > > > I haven't taken a gander at configuring sendmail yet because I completely > > > screwed it up on my last 3.4 install. I'm now running 4.0-stable and would > > > like to get this one right. > > Your machine, for whatever reason, is not accepting mail for > > Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com. It thinks it needs to be relayed. > Ok, I haven't messed with /etc/sendmail.cf yet. It doesn't even exist on > my system. Is this the reason why it wants to relay? It's in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. > > > I messed up the sendmail stuff by trying to configure named to run on the > > > box so I could get email at the alias domain also . > > > Do I have to run named to accomplish this? Are there any good tutorials > > > out there for setting up named? My last attempt was reading through man > > > named and man sendmail. > > Alias domain? What are you trying to do? > The lame domain given to me by @home is the Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com. > Where the x's represent my account. So, I went to dhs.org and registered a > domain name .dhs.org where is my account. It used to > be when I had 3.4 installed that I could only recieve email at > @Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com. If I tried to send it to the > alias domain name I created, @.dhs.org it would > bounce. They both share the same IP but the DNS 1 hop up from me probably > couldn't resolve it. So, I tried to set up my own named and screwed > everything up. Yeah, sounds like it would. Don't like your @home.com name? If you are using the default sendmail.cf, I believe all you need to do is put the domains in sendmail.cw, $ cat /etc/mail/sendmail.cw Cxxxxxxx-A.frndl1.wa.home.com .dhs.org That is, provided you've got your MX record properly set for your DNS record. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message