On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 13:29, Patrick Nelson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 03:29, Cowles, Steve wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Patrick Nelson > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:32 PM > > > Subject: sendmail relay a domain > > > > > > > [snip...] > > > > > It seems that this is what the mailertable is for, but I can't seem to > > > get it working... Anyone understand this better? O'Reily Sendmail is > > > somewhat crytic on an answer. > > > > Based on your post, using the mailertable should be the proper solution. > > > > 1) How are you entering your mailertable entries? Please show examples. > > For reference: > > > > thisdomian.com esmtp:mail.thisdomain.com > > -or- by IP address > > thisdomain.com esmtp:[192.168.1.5] > > local to the sendmail server is thisdomain.com and I want to send > thisdomain.org to another sever. > > my entries are like: > > thisdomain.org esmtp:[mailserver2.neatech.com] > > I've also tried: > > thisdomain.org esmtp:[<server.ip>]
Either one should have worked. If mailserver2 can be looked up through DNS, then the brackets are not really needed. Typically, the brackets are used when specifying IP addresses. > > > 2) Did you create a new mailertable database after your added entries? i.e. > > mailertable.db > > Yes I did a make mailertable.db in the /etc/mail subdir with no errors > and the date and/or time changes. Good! > > > 3) Does your sendmail.cf file support the use of the mailertable feature? > > The first part of your sendmail.cf file should list all features. > > Yes I have an entry in the mc file like: > > FEATRUE(`mailertableq',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl I hope the above is just a type-o... I have: FEATRUE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl > > > 4) What do your logfiles show? > > Testing a manual inbound mail with telnet I get an error like: > > 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Relaying denied. IP name lookup > failed [<External Interface IP of mailserver1q>] > > mailserver1 is the server I'm doing the mailertable entries on. That is > what keeps happening. The log shows about the same info like: > > Jun 5 11:02:24 mailserver1 sendmail[12343]: h55I21412343: > ruleset=check_rcpt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=[<External > Interface IP of mailserver1q>], reject=550 5.7.1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed > [<External Interface IP of mailserver1q>] > The mailertable feature specifies which mailer to select. The file... /etc/mail/relay-domains specifies which domains can be relayed. Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
