From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 24 07:39:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01811 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bert.club-web.com (bert.club-web.com [207.176.196.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA01799 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernie.club-web.com (ernie.club-web.com [207.176.196.12]) by bert.club-web.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA07189 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33D769C1.167EB0E7@club-web.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:42:09 -0400 From: Mark Segal Organization: Club-Web Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange mail problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > We are having a _very_ strange and annoying problem with mail. There is a > particular company that we host a web page for, and they also have a > dedicated connection with us. (ISDN). The thing is, on our mail server, if > mail is sent from it, it tries to DELIVER IT LOCALLY. I had this problem > once for a company we were virtual hosting, then couldnt get it to stop... > but we have never done that for this particular client. Any ideas? > > Could it be a DNS problem? I just don't see how it thinks the domain is > local, except we host their web site @ www.* . > > Thanks for any ideas... It could be one of a few things.. (a) you have the option in your sendmail/or the mc file that says "best MX is local" (b) the dns says that you have the highest MX priority (c) or you have their domain in your sendmail.cw file -- Mark Segal mark@club-web.com System Administrator - Club-Web Inc.