From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 22:16:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from satan.cybertouch.org (satan.cybertouch.org [216.183.2.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A83152EA for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org) Received: from localhost (eliezer@localhost) by satan.cybertouch.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02111 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:59:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eliezer@satan.cybertouch.org) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:59:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Eli Nissim To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mailing problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: SIZE=53 250 ... Sender ok >>> RCPT To: 250 ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message