Re: [cobalt-users] accepting mail for a domain

["John Burgess" <john.burgess@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dylan,

It sounds like the html pages for the sites are out of sync with the
virtusertable. My one of my raq2's does the same thing.  To fix it edit the
/etc/virtusertable file and find a line like this  (first make a copy of the
file in case you want the original back later):

@somedomain.com.au %1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

remove the line and then rehash the virtusertable (makemap)

Then in the gui, check accept email for domain for that domain.

I think your question regarding domains, subdomains, MX records and how
sendmail
might handle such configurations depends on several factors.  I have never
used a Cobalt for
DNS so I'm not sure how you might set it up using a Cobalt.  Under ordinary
bind, if the files are setup
correctly, there should not be any overriding.  An example zone file might
look like this:
____________________________________________________________________
$ORIGIN net.
testnet 86400   IN      SOA     dns.testnet.net.
hostmaster.testnet.net.
(
                        20000706 ; serial
                        28800 ; refresh
                        7200 ; retry
                        3600000 ; expire
                        86400 ; default_ttl
                        )
testnet 86400   IN      NS      ns.testnet.net.
testnet 86400   IN      NS      ns2.testnet.net.
testnet 86400   IN      MX      10      mail.testnet.net.
subdom.testnet  86400   IN      MX      10      srv.subdom.testnet.net.
testnet 86400   IN      A       192.168.1.174
$ORIGIN testnet.net.
localhost       86400   IN      A       127.0.0.1
ns      86400   IN      A       192.168.1.171
ns2     86400   IN      A       192.168.1.172
mail    86400   IN      A       192.168.1.173
www     86400   IN      A       192.168.1.174
$ORIGIN subdom.testnet.net.
srv     86400   IN      A       192.168.1.175
________________________________________________________________________

Testing with nslookup:

[root@mail named]# nslookup
Default Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

> set type=mx
> testnet.net
Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

testnet.net     preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.testnet.net
testnet.net     nameserver = ns.testnet.net
testnet.net     nameserver = ns2.testnet.net
mail.testnet.net        internet address = 192.168.1.173
ns.testnet.net  internet address = 192.168.1.171
ns2.testnet.net internet address = 192.168.1.172
> subdom.testnet.net
Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

subdom.testnet.net      preference = 10, mail exchanger =
srv.subdom.testnet.net
testnet.net     nameserver = ns.testnet.net
testnet.net     nameserver = ns2.testnet.net
srv.subdom.testnet.net  internet address = 192.168.1.175
ns.testnet.net  internet address = 192.168.1.171
ns2.testnet.net internet address = 192.168.1.172
>



John Burgess
fastex.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "dylan" <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:56 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] accepting mail for a domain


> Hello All,
>
> Thanks for the makemap command syntax everybody who answered.
>
> I would like to setup a subdomain of -
>
> domain.com.au
>
> and accept mail for it, However when I try I get the message 'another site
> is already accepting email for this domain' although   domain.com.au
> certainly does not accept mail (that is done by another server -
> mail.domain.com.au ) It is probably a subdomain that is accepting it.
>
> can I -
>
> a) find the subdomain accepting mail for domain.com.au by looking through
a
> conf file rather than waiting for the GUI which crawls along...
> b) configure subdomains of domain.com.au to accept mail individually?
>     eg user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> I would like to be able to send mail to username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> as well as user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (which resolves to another server). Does the
> MX record for domain.com.au  override any MX record I create for a
subdomain
> of that?
>
> The domain/subdomains are hosted on a Raq2 with a zillion patches. The
raq2
> is actually working well - ripleys believe it or not.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dylan O'Donnell
> dylan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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