From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 31 8:22:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCCD37B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [64.105.95.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D20A43ED8 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gshapiro@gshapiro.net) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.7.Beta1/8.12.7.Beta1) with ESMTP id gBV5WuGR034894 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.7.Beta1/8.12.7.Beta1/Submit) id gBV5WuGO034891; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:32:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15889.11271.850676.349183@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:32:55 -0800 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring MX records In-Reply-To: <20021226105711.GA4379@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> References: <20021226105711.GA4379@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG peterjeremy> One of my systems insists on trying to deliver mail directly peterjeremy> to A record addresses rather than via MX records. I've tried peterjeremy> comparing the configuration with a system that works sanely peterjeremy> and can't find any explanation for this behaviour. Does this peterjeremy> ring a bell with anyone? peterjeremy> The working system is running -STABLE from mid-September and peterjeremy> the non-working system is -STABLE from mid-July - but both are peterjeremy> the same sendmail. DNS is working correctly (according to peterjeremy> both dig and lynx). The only possibly relevant difference is peterjeremy> that the non-working system has a hostname that is totally peterjeremy> different to the FQDN that is visible externally - but I don't peterjeremy> think this is relevant. Note that sendmail-questions@sendmail.org may be a better support address for this type of question. However, you might try a delivery with debugging to see why it is failing. As root: date | sendmail -Am -v -d8.8 testaddress where testaddress is an address on a remote host. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message