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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ifconfig alias and Sendmail
Date: 3 Jul 1996 00:30:48 -0500
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
Lines: 51
Message-ID: <4rd0i8$i6@anorak.coverform.lan>
References: <DtwILv.Iwu.E.fourthgen@fourthgen.fourthgen.com> <4rbac9$5eo@natasha.rmii.com>
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X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk
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Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr. (tjacobs@vaultbbs.com) wrote:
: tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com (Tom Greenwalt) wrote:
: >I'm trying to setup multiple domains on a single machine and
: >thanks to FreeBSD homepage, I've found several examples for doing
: >that. However, when I try to send test mail to a user on the new
: >domain, I get an error back from sendmail:
: > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: >553 fourthgen.com config error: mail loops back to myself
: >554 tomg@trancer.com... Local configuration error
: >Is there something I'm supposed to change in sendmail.cf to make
: >this work?
: >Thanks.
: If your current domain name is domain1.com and you want to add
: domain2.com then you should already have a line that looks like
: Cwdomain1.com
: in your /etc/sendmail.cf file. Add another one right under it that
: looks like
: Cwdomain2.com
Read /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README and
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/FAQ. Your error message is mentioned in
the FAQ, and the README describes an alternative (and IMO an infinitely
more friendly) way of altering sendmail.cf:
anorak $ cat >anorak.mc <<eof
VERSIONID(`anorak.mc version 1.0')
OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
FEATURE(nodns)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', awfulhak.demon.co.uk)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS( awfulhak.demon.co.uk )dnl
eof
anorak $ CFDIR=/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/
anorak $ m4 -D_CF_DIR_=$CFDIR ${CFDIR}m4/cf.m4 anorak.mc >/etc/sendmail.cf
And this is for my laptop - it hasn't got a real (DNS) name, it hasn't
got a DNS sometimes. This is a "tricky" example....
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....