On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote: > I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a > problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for > may domain. > > I want mail specifically addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be > delivered to thishost.mydom.com *not* mxhost.mydom.com. That's how it worked > on slackware.
A guess, and let me reiterate that it is just a guess, would be that sendmail on the local machine has one (or both) of these configuration errors: 1) It has been set up to forward all mail to a mailhub (Null client). 2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name. For #1, look for options in the sendmail.cf such as: DS (smart relay host) -or- DH (hub host) (to which all mail is sent) -or- DH (who gets all local email traffic). For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup on the IP address of the machine. I'm a bit surprised that mx.mydom.com accepts your mail, as /etc/mail/sendmail.cw (in the debian implementation, was formerly in sendmail.cf as CW) must contain thishost.mydom.com. Unless of course that you are sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and wanting it to be delivered locally, in which case you need to add mydom.com to the /etc/mail/sendmail.cw. Let me know if any of this makes sense, let alone fixes the problem. --Pete _______________________________________________________________ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
