Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RAQ4 Mail problem

[Mark Bitterling <mark@xxxxxx>]

Chuck Hatcher wrote:

> > 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

Yeah I knew about that file and my domains are not in it.  The only domain
listed there is the one that I do want the RAQ to handle mail for.

You can add or remove domains from it via the Email server parameters in the
GUI, but I also checked it manually from the command line just to be sure.

Mark Bitterling
mark@xxxxxx