From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 19:47:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.agoron.com (tao.agoron.com [206.181.233.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D0037B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marius@agoron.com) Received: from quasi (quasi.shredco.com [206.181.233.73]) by tao.agoron.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA24450; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:47:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marius Kirschner" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: sendmail question Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:47:39 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20010829193919.C84755@helios.soupnazi.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's local-host-names now.....but, yeah, I've tried it with the hostnames defined and without and with the same results... I even set up a mailertable pointing to the correct smtp server for those domains. ---Marius > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Mock [mailto:mij@soupnazi.org] > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:39 PM > To: Marius Kirschner > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: sendmail question > > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 22:31:15 -0400, Marius Kirschner wrote: > > What would cause sendmail trying to deliver mail to a local user if > > the MX record points to a different mail server? To explain further, > > and I've been at this for over 2 weeks now..... > > > > I have a FreeBSD 4.3 box that hosts virtual web sites and if a mail is > > entered on that box (mostly through a web form mailer) destined for an > > virtual domain e-mail account it tries to deliver it locally. > > Naturally, it bounces with an "user unknown" error message. > > > > Mail is delivered correctly when sent from anywhere but the box that > > hosts the domain. I'm clueless... :) > > Do you have those hosts in /etc/mail/local-host-names or in > /etc/mail/sendmail.cw (what it used to be called)? I'm not sure if this > would cause it or not, it's been quite some time since I've done any > virtual mail domains or used sendmail... > > - jim > > -- > jim mock tech writer | iXsystems, Inc. > http://soupnazi.org/ work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message