[cobalt-users] Re: Relaying denied problem

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think he was talking about your dns server. 

No, I was talking about the site settings on the RaQ.  You generally need to 
make two additions to the default entries: example.com in the web server 
alias field (so that people entering example.com instead of www.example.com 
will still reach your site; it adds a ServerAlias 
to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and example.com in the mail server alias field 
(it's generally blank by default; adding an alias makes an entry 
in /etc/mail/local-host-names telling sendmail it's ok to accept mail 
addressed to example.com domain (vs www.example.com which is all it will 
answer for by default).

If you already have an entry in the mail server alias field, then your 
relaying denied problem lies elsewhere. But that missing entry is generally 
the root of many email issues (esp the dreaded "max recursion" error), so I 
thought I'd try there first.

The next test would be to, in a shell session, run "sendmail -bt" and try some 
local rules to see what various incoming addresses "resolve" to according to 
sendmail - i.e., make sure bob@xxxxxxxxxxx is ultimately pointed to the local 
username "bob" (or whatever) on the server.

I think the rule to try is "3,0 username@xxxxxxxxxx" or "0,3 
username@xxxxxxxxxx" - it should end up pointing at a local username. If not, 
then your problems lie with an alias definition.

Oh yeah, you have to press ^D to get out of the sendmail "interactive" mode.