Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

["Chuck Hatcher" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The problem is that for some reason the Cobalt does not want to allow
> our mail server to handle the email.  For example, http://www.ky.net is
> hosted on the Cobalt RAQ server, but my email newt@xxxxxx mailbox is on
> our mail server.  Mail comes and goes just fine, with one exception.  If
> an email message originates on the Cobalt server (ie being created by a
> CGI script) and is addressed to newt@xxxxxx then the Cobalt will not
> send it to the mail server.  Apparently the Cobalt thinks that since it
> hosts http://www.ky.net then it should also needs to have a local
> newt@xxxxxx mailbox too.  Since it does not have one, the Cobalt gives
> an error saying that the user does not exist.
>
> Any suggestions?  It seems like this should be really simple, but I can
> not find where anything is telling sendmail to verify the user account
> locally for the hosted domains.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Mark Bitterling
> newt@xxxxxx
>

The file /etc/mail/local-host-names is used by sendmail to determine whether
or not an email address is local.  If you remove ky.net from this file, your
problem should go away.

I do not know if the Cobalt GUI will put it back in there or not.  I am not
a Cobalt expert by any means.  Maybe someone else can address that.

Chuck Hatcher