Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:45:19 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: sendmail local-host-names questions Message-ID: <503DC88F.6060806@dreamchaser.org>
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Sorry if this is a bit off topic;
couldn't find an answer on the net anywhere and sendmail.org seems to be
non-functional unless you're a commercial customer;
or at least that's the way it looks to me,
as it's redirected to sendmail.com and their "Ask the Experts" page
has no way to ask anybody anything :-)
Anyhoo...
I was setting up a virtual domain and mistakenly set my local-host-names file
to have trailing dots after the domain and host names.
This caused mail sent to the domain(s) to be bounced with the message:
554 5.0.0 MX list for dreamchaser.org. points back to nightmare.dreamchase
r.org
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
Which caused me to tear my hair out (what little I have left) trying to fix
a non-existent DNS configuration error.
The maillog shows a similar message:
Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]:
q7T59w8M050394: to=ah@dreamchaser.org, delay=00:00:07, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=62332, relay=dreamchaser.org., dsn=5.3.5,
stat=Local configuration error
Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394: q7T59w8N050394:
return to sender: Local configuration error
Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8N050394: to=ah@dreamchaser.org,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=33356,
relay=dreamchaser.org., dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error
Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394:
Losing ./qfq7T59w8M050394: savemail panic
Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394: SYSERR(root):
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
Can anyone explain what's going on or point me to a better place to ask?
It's now fixed but I'd like to understand why sendmail doesn't like a domain
specified with a trailing dot, since I thought that was how one specified a
fully qualified domain name.
Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the
local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file,
and it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm
guessing the lines are just being skipped because they don't parse properly.
I'd like to know whether comments are allowed or not; and if so,
what the proper syntax is.
Thanks for any hints,
Gary
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