From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 18:26:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java2.dpcsys.com (java2.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FE337B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by java2.dpcsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4H1QXc39686; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:26:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! MX record stopping sendmail working? In-Reply-To: <20010517011257.93518.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 17, Keith Spencer wrote: >I am building an new 4.2 machine to replace a 3.2 >machine. I have simple copied the namedb directory >(with permissions) over to the new machine but >sendmail reports.... >smmc.qld.edu.au MX record points back to >smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au >The mail server (smmcroute) is the dns server >(secondary dns...the isp is our primary) hmmm... >any ideas? >I have created a sendmail.cw file since the old system >had one because mail wouldn't work without it. >I notice with 4.2 the mail configs are now in >/etc/mail...OK The latest sendmail calls sendmail.cw local-host-names (this was actually changed quite a while back) Check in your sendmail.cf for the line # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names to double check the location Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message