Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

[Mark Bitterling <mark@xxxxxx>]

flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Mark Bitterling wrote:
>
> >
> > The user does not exist on the Cobalt RAQ.  I do not want the RAQ to handle
> > mail for this user or any other user in the ky.net domain.  All MX records
> > properly point to our mail server which is a totally separate box.  The problem
> > is that I can not figure out why the RAQ wants to try to verify the user
> > locally.
>
> Because sendmail as configured on the raq's 'knows' that interfaces it is
> listening on are local. (and thus bypass the alias rules)
>
> The only thing i can think of offhand is to try to fool it, make a domain
> like outbound.ky.net and MX that to the external mail server, and don't
> list it as an alias for sendmail, cgi's should be able to send to that
> explicitly, but somewhere you will need to patch it up again with a domain
> alias...

What alias rules are you referring to?

I do not have my domains listed as aliases for sendmail anywhere that I know of.

Mark Bitterling
mark@xxxxxx