Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

[Mark Bitterling <mark@xxxxxx>]

Here are the entries from maillog when I try to send the mail from the Cobalt
shell command line.

May 10 19:48:22 cobalt sendmail[5343]: f4B0mMA05343: to=newt@xxxxxx,
delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=0, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
May 10 19:48:27 cobalt sendmail[5343]: f4B0mMA05343: from=admin, size=0,
class=0, nrcpts=1, relay=root@localhost

The email should be directed to the server mail.ky.net but it is not.

I have looked at the MX records and they are correct.  The Cobalt server
properly looks to our default DNS server when I run nslookup.

While trying to figure out why this was happenning, I decided to set up DNS
info locally so that the Cobalt would not have to look elsewhere for the MX
records.  Seting up DNS on the Cobalt did not change anything.  So I remove the
entries and turned off the local DNS.  The Cobalt is once again properly
pulling DNS records from our primary DNS.  I can add the DNS back to the Cobalt
if someone can show me that it would help anything, but from my testing, it
does not seem to make any difference.

Mark Bitterling
mark@xxxxxx



Kevin D wrote:

> > Anyway, I still need help resolving the issue outlined in my original
> message.  The Cobalt insists on trying
> > to verify the outgoing email addresses locally even though the MX records
> correctly point to a totally
> > separate mail server.  I have searched this mailing list's archives and it
> seems like others have run into
> > this in the past, but I have been unable to find any real answers in the
> replies.  Via the web
> > administration, I have told the Cobalt to only handle email for one
> domain, but it wants to look for users
> > locally for all domains for which it hosts websites.  Why is it doing
> this?
>
> What's the host name of the machine? If your host name contains the domain,
> maybe that is the problem. That's just a guess, though. I would say telnet
> into your raq and check the mail log (/var/log/maillog) and see what
> sendmail is doing. Also, try using nslookup on the raq itself to see if you
> can lookup the appropriate MX record. If you are using an outside DNS
> server, and not the raq's dns server, be sure that the dns service is turned
> off and that your raq is using your actual DNS server and not its own
> internal DNS server. If you are using the raq for DNS, try restarting the
> DNS services.
>
> Kevin
>
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