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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!nwfocus.wa.com!ender.techcenter.paccar.com!news From: Will Kempf <wkempf@paccar.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mail problems... Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 12:55:09 -0800 Organization: PACCAR Information Systems Lines: 37 Message-ID: <31127A2D.3D82@paccar.com> References: <310A6137.4B46@mail.vianet.com.mx> <4ema62$dqs@neon3.neonramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wkempf.misrenton.paccar.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (WinNT; I) To: Gene Black <black@neonramp.com> Gene Black wrote: > = > In article <310A6137.4B46@mail.vianet.com.mx>, avazquez@mail.vianet.com.m= x > says... > > > >I=B4d just setup a FreeBSD 2.1 mail server as mail.my.domain, and I > > enabled it as the Mail Exchanger of my.domain, so anybody how sends > > mail to user@my.domain were actually sending to user@mail.my.domain. > > The nameserver is Ok, but the freebsd box doesn=B4t receive the mail > > sent to user@my.domain because "a local configuration error". When > > sending a mail to user@mail.my.domain everything is ok! > > Any idea?... Please email! > = > You need to configure your Cw option in your sendmail.cf file to recogniz= e > local hosts. This keeps the mail from looping back on itself. You can als= o use > Fw and then the name of a file which contains all the local host names to= > recognize (each hostname is separated by a carriage return) I keep a file= in my > /etc directory named hosts.mail and simply give sendmail a HUP when I add= > another host (virtual host for domain e-mail purposes) Also, make sure your DNS db.<my.domain> file has MX (and A for misbehaved S= MTP = MTAs) entries for the domain: e.g., @ IN MX mail.my.domain @ IN A [IP addr for mail.my.domain]