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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 (fwd) Date: 12 Apr 1996 19:15:15 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4kma43$nm8@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960410174302.2988C-100000@presence.lglobal.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:718 comp.mail.sendmail:26912 Colin Ryan <drop@lglobal.com> writes: > I wish to have mail for a particular FreeBSD 2.1.0 machine AA.AA.AA.AA and a > certain domain > to get spooled on a separate machine than my main user box. In the DNS > entries i have > > [cut] IN A AA.AA.AA.AA > IN MX 10 AA.AA.AA.AA > > for the particular machine. > > and > > @SOA [cut] > > domain IN A BB.BB.BB.BB > IN MX 10 AA.AA.AA.AA > > etc. etc. While i don't think that this is a very good approach to assign an A record for the whole domain name, that's certainly not your problem here. I can't really understand what you are doing, in particular, why you are calling `mail' with the -r option: > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > mail: illegal option -- r > Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... > [- sendmail-options ...] > mail [-iInNv] -f [name] > mail [-iInNv] [-u user] > 554 <drop@gadzook.lglobal.com>... unknown mailer error 1 Anyway, the normal way to arrange this is to put Cwdomain into your machine.mc (or sendmai.cf) file, to tell this sendmail that it should also take mail addressed to the entire domain as being local to itself. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j