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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Eli Nissim <eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   mailing problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910260044490.1985-100000@satan.cybertouch.org>

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Hello FreeBSD'ers
I have a problem that I have tried for a few days to solve. Obviously I
would not write and ask for it here had I been able to solve it.

The problem is, I can mail this list and anwhere else and get replies.
Except to my own LAN. I can mail a user or myself (as another user on
another FreeBSD box). However when tring to reply I get the same
message...user uknown. This machine I am mailing from is not a dns server
and is FreeBSD 3.3-stable. 

Here is a view of what happens from my FreeBSD box, Freedom:

lnb@freedom:~$ mail -v eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org
Subject: test 100
test blah
.
EOT
eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org... User unknown
/home/lnb/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/lnb/dead.letter


Now the same thing but from the box satan.cybertouch.org:

eliezer@satan:~$ mail -v lnb@cybertouch.org
Subject: test 1500
test blah
.
EOT
lnb@cybertouch.org... Connecting to mail.cybertouch.org. via esmtp...
220 freedom.cybertouch.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Tue, 26 Oct 1999
01:08:07 -0400 (EDT)
>>> EHLO satan.cybertouch.org
250-freedom.cybertouch.org Hello satan.cybertouch.org [216.183.2.6],
pleased to meet you
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org> SIZE=53

250 <eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<lnb@cybertouch.org>
250 <lnb@cybertouch.org>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 BAA57135 Message accepted for delivery
lnb@cybertouch.org... Sent (BAA57135 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to mail.cybertouch.org.
>>> QUIT
221 freedom.cybertouch.org closing connection
eliezer@satan:~$ 


Can someone please tell me where the problem is?  I have only 1 MX record
for cybertouch  that is 
cybertouch.org.         IN      MX      10 mail.cybertouch.org.
mail                    IN      A       216.183.2.2

In /etc/mail i have a virtusers.db the virtusers has an entry for eliezer
as follows:

eliezer@cybertouch.org  eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org

However, there is no user called eliezer on my box called freedom which is
the mail server. 

Thank you for your help.

Lanny Baron



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