RE: [cobalt-users] Unable to send mail to other owned raq

["Jay Fesco" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Resolved the 'aliases.db out of date' issue (ran /usr/bin/newaliases - duh).
This did not correct the original issue - (loops back to me - Possible MX
problem)

Thanks!

Jay Fesco

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Fesco [mailto:jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:43 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Unable to send mail to other owned raq


Addendum:

I've found in my /var/log/maillog multiple entries that say 'alias database
/etc/aliases.db out of date'.  We have not made any manual updates to
etc/aliases, but we do use Webmin (which has its own way of looking at
Sendmail configuration).  Most important - how to resync it (specifically -
I can get around in Telnet, but I'm not a guru).  Second would be - how did
this occur and how can I prevent it in the future?  The only email addresses
that seem to be affected  are the 'domaincg.com / domainid.com' issues
listed below.

Any help would be appreciated!  I don't have much hair left...

Jay Fesco

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jay Fesco
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:50 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Unable to send mail to other owned raq


I'm having the same problem.  I tried the suggestion you made below (remove
the 'no www' A record) but to no avail.

I have two domains that are causing the issue.  One is 'domainid.com', the
other is 'domaincg.com'.  All email for users at 'domaincg.com' must be
routed individually to specific addresses at 'domainid.com'.  The reason -
the client has been 'domainid.com' forever, so many people have their
@domainid.com addresses.  They are migrating to 'domaincg.com', but for the
foreseeable future want all mail to route to their 'old' email addresses.

These are POP users on our Raq3 (we don't have many outside our office).  We
had this working fine until we took a hack where TRIN00 was installed (as
well as IRC and a Rootkit).  At our request, our machine was wiped last
Thursday morning.  We reloaded it Thursday and Friday, and haven't been able
to make this email work since.  We've tried all versions of aliasing, no
aliasing, etc, including deleting and redefining MX records, A records,
Reverse Lookup, No Reverse Lookup, but the 'cg' domain just will not respond
with ANYTHING other than 'mail loops back to me.'  Help?

Jay Fesco

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael H. La
Budde
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:25 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Unable to send mail to other owned raq


I'm certainly not a DNS expert, but I think you need to review the MX
records for each of these domains. Also, there might be a problem having
domain.com resolv to (aliased?) www.domain.com. Try removing this and see
if that affects anything (other than not being able to simply put in the
domain w/out the www in your favorite web browser....

HTH,

Mike


At 3/6/2001 06:31 AM, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>I have been unable to send any email to my raq2 to my raq4 or vice versa
>ever since we chnaged the DNs around on the servers. Both raq's are able to
>send emails to email addresses outside of the box's but not to each other.
I
>tried sending an email to the raq2(my site is on the raq4) and received:
>
>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     (reason: system config error)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>553 5.3.5 www.hogmanay.net. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
>problem?)
>554 5.3.5 <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>... Local configuration error
>
>Have added to local-host-names both forms of domain name (www.domain.com &
>domain.com) on the raq4r.
>
>Have also checked that the dns records are held on the raq4r for the raq2.
>Raq4 is primary dns and raq2 slave.
>
>Need of help, urgently....
>
>Jonathan
>
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