At 10:47 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Pete Templin wrote: > >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: > Well, it appears to be fixed now. I uninstalled & reinstalled sendmail and serveral packages (removing some left over files in between)
> >1) It has been set up to forward all mail to a mailhub (Null client). That was my first guess. > >2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name. And this my second. >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). > None of the above. In fact, I have another box that is a dual boots win95/debian that runs sendmail when in debian and works fine. When I copied the sendmail.cf from that machine it still happened. That points to your guess # 2... >For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup >on the IP address of the machine. > But it was resolving correctly. >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. It was removing "thishost" from the address, which points back to guess #1. > >Let me know if any of this makes sense, let alone fixes the problem. > Yes it does, but it seems only uninstalling & reintalling a few packages worked. Perhaps it was a sendmail larva.... Thanks, Perry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
