Re: [cobalt-users] Email sending trouble & Webalizer Thanks

[John Rood <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Support wrote:

> 
> I have a couple of domains eg lifestyleonline.com.au who's DNS and mail
> servers are ofsite but their website on the cobalt.
> 
> I have EMUmail running as a webmail based package and some cust use Outlook
> Express. (The other thing is does anyone know of anything any better and
> cheaper that will go easy on the Cobalt. Any Sugestions would be helpfull.)
> 
> 
> The question is when I or others send email to this domain from any mail
> account on the Cobalt it comes back and says User Unknow. It appears to be
> not using the DNS to do lookups if it has that domain on the server, it
> just tries to send it to it.
> 
> Can someone point me in the rite direction to be able to get this and
> several other domians of which their mail servers reside elsewhere.

You probably turned on 'Accept mail for domain' in the site admin. This
adds the the domain name to sendmail's local list (class w) so sendmail
thinks that mail for lifestyleonline.com.au sould be delivered locally (on
the cobalt). Turning this option off should fix it. You can also remove
it from /etc/sendmail.cw by hand, but i think that it'll get overwritten
by the mechanics behind the ui.
 
> Regarding Webalizer. I was regreting the day I bought this cobalt till that
> was found. I could not get that to work using the source or rpm it just
> would not go. Thanks guys for the instruction to others I have been lurking
> and learning in the background. It looks like I to may have the DNS lookups
> working to. Thanks to all who made comment and help.

I hope you do realise that the webalizer packages have a few minor flaws
which could result in loss of statistics thanks to the way logs get
rotated. Currently there's no real fix for this, but one should be
available pretty soon (i hope).

John

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