Re: mail problem
On 2000-01-22 22:39:50, aphro wrote:
> I have 2 machines that handle 99% of my accounts. 1 is acting mail
> server(bebo.firetrail.com) and the other does everything
> else(galactica.firetrail.com)
>
> all of the domains i host MX to mail.firetrail.com (which goes to
> bebo.firetrail.com).
Ok.
>
> on galactica.firetrail.com, if i mail to a user, and the user exists on
> the local machine, the mail system mails to that user (e.g. echo "test" |
> mail aphro@aphroland.org) however if the local user does NOT exist it
> returns "user unknown" this only appears to happen when the local user
> does not exist. although it shouldnt matter since no domains for mail are
> hosted on galactica.firetrail.com (other then galactica.firetrail.com) the
> system doesn't know to send the mail to
> bebo.firetrail.com(mail.firetrail.com)
Clearly, you are hosting something on galactica, otherwise mail for
your "local" user would be forwarded to your other machine. What is
the mx record for galactica? Do you have a domain hosted on bebo and
some users from that domain on galactica? If so, you will need to
either accept USER@bebo.DOMAIN on galactica (and nothing else) or
rewrite their addresses to USER@galactica.DOMAIN.
> any ideas?? i figure its a procmail thing..or is sendmail misconfigured?
Almost definately a mta problem (e.g. sendmail). If the above doesn't
help I would need to see your sendmail config files (including
/etc/mailname).
/Allan
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