Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:28:22 -0500 From: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> To: Paul Boehmer <pboehmer@seidata.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail and MX error Message-ID: <19991202152822.B19728@intrepid.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991202134057.007d2cb0@mail.seidata.com>; from pboehmer@seidata.com on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:40:57PM -0500 References: <3.0.6.32.19991202134057.007d2cb0@mail.seidata.com>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:40:57PM -0500, Paul Boehmer wrote: > I have a slew of ppl who try to email user@sub.domain.com instead of > user@domain.com. Whenever we receive mail like that, we get a 'mx config > error, loops back to me' error. > I have tried to add the sub's to sendmail.cw, but it made no difference. I > know there must be another setting in sendmail.cf, but I cannot locate it > and the O'Reilly book doesnt really mention how to handle subdomains. 1) Is your sendmail configured to read the .cw file: Fw-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw 2) Is their a linefeed at the end of the line that you added to sendmail.cw, if it's at the end of the file 3) Did you restart or HUP sendmail after adding the entry to the .cw file? The "look backs to me" error says that the box isn't configured to accept mail for that domain. These things *should* fix it. --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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