Re: [cobalt-users] mail for this domain to another server?

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

} However, on the emails where it's a user@xxxxxxx, it chokes. The RaQ
} is looking for the user on itself, and it's not supposed to. The mail
} is hosted elsewhere.

Hi Carrie,

	This is an educated guess... I've never bothered to try it.
But we host a couple of virtual ISPs and we have a few users that
run remotely hosted freemail services. In each of those cases email
is not handled by our servers. For a whole lot of reasons (wait till
something goes wrong and all involved start pointing fingers - it's
always our fault) we've told such users what to expect and simply
left it at that - we're either responsible for their email or we're
not, it's as simple as that from where I sit.

	But I have pondered the situation considerably.

	I think if you set up sendmail to relay for the domain
(add it as a relay to the servers /etc/mail/access file, everything
will work just fine. I don't like the idea of setting up a relay of
this sort on a production machine so I'll stick with what we've been
doing but I don't think sendmail is looking for the mail exchanger
locally as much as it is refusing to relay email for a domain for
which DNS is saying it's not supposed to handle the email for.

	brent sims

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