Re: Looking for a few good Sendmail gurus
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:55:46PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Shane Liebling wrote:
>
> > > what is the contents of your /etc/mail/local-host-names
> > > on host.foo.com and mail.foo.com and foo.com
> >
> > There is no mention of host.foo.com in mail.foo.com's local-host-names (just
> > mail.foo.com and foo.com), currently host.foo.com's says the same thing (it
> > is our old mailserver - but from the error messages it is issues on the new
> > server -> nothing about issues w/ forged addresses)
>
> if a machine has host.foo.com .. it will only accept/relay emails
> for that that hostname
>
> if a machine has foo.com listed, it will accept ALL emails for that domain
> unless a higher MX record ( lower mx number ) machine says its alive and
> it will do the work
But will this mater if it is addressed to user@host.foo.com, or only if it
is sent to user@foo.com?
> for experiment ...
> - i'd use sendmail-8.13.1 and replace submit.cf too as its
> broken in whacky ways
> ( 8.13.1 usually fixed any of my mail delivery/receipt issues )
>
I am looking into it.
-SHane
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