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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:33:02 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Andrew Thomson <ajthomson@optushome.com.au>
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In the last episode (May 27), Andrew Thomson said:
> I'm trying to route all email to a domain to another mail server on my
> local network.
> 
> I've setup the following:
> 
> cat /etc/mail/mailertable
> domain     smtp:192.168.0.8
> 
> What I was hoping for was that any mail to domain would be sent via the
> host mentioned.
> 
> When I then send mail, I can see that it picks up my entry, however it
> has issues..
> 
> May 27 11:20:51 host sm-mta[90308]: h4R1Koe0090306:
> to=<user@domain>,
> ctladdr=<www@host> (80/80), delay=00:00:01,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=30364, relay=192.168.0.8, dsn=5.1.2,
> stat=Host unknown (Name server: 192.168.0.8: host not found)

Put the IP in square brackets; otherwise sendmail will try to do MX
lookups on the domain named "192.168.0.8".  You can put []'s around
anything to force sendmail to talk directly with that host instead of
using MXes.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com