Re: [cobalt-users] Mail Rewrite Error

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Christopher Cantrell wrote:
> <<< 554 rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50), ruleset 3
> 
> DNS
> 	When I first started using the RAQ3, I was told to set DNS up like this.
> 	1.  Create A record for domain.com > IP address
> 	2.  Create CNAME for www.domain.com > domain.com
> 	3.  Create MX record for domain.com > domain.com
> 
> I fixed the problem by creating two A records for domain.com and

This is the right way to fix it...

> www.domain.com.  The thing I don't understand is why are the other domains,

You probably never edited the alias in the GUI after adding them, i have
found that modifying the alias list on the raq2 sometimes drops the domain 
name off the user names...

> Does anyone have any information they would mind sharing.

There's a rule in sendmail.cf to map joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to
joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, which is fine except the MX record tells sendmail
to convert www.somewhere.com back to somewhere.com, thus the
endless loop...

having an explicit domain name in the alias or a different MX record seems
to let sendmail skip this rule...

Gordon

> 
> thanks for your help and assistance.
> -chris
> 
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