Re: Looking for a few good Sendmail gurus
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
local-host-names should have localhost, localhost.domainname and 127.0.0.1
and optionally it's machine.foo.com name so it can deal with its own
emails from cron
"cp /dev/null /var/spool/mail/root" once in a while
( i like to see it delivered and look for whacky emails than
( delete it later
> Both mail.foo.com and host.foo.com are A records.
good
> > you should be using sendmail-8.13.1 ... to avoid silly avoidable problems
>
> Well, as I said I am using woody (Sendmail 8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1;)...
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 )
c ya
alvin
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