Re: [cobalt-users] Email nightmare

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Looking into my crystal ball and taking a wild stab, I'd say that the CGI
>> script is running as user abc on your server, which has a host name of
>> server1. User abc, however, is set up on mysite.com. Sendmail then puts
>two
>> and two together and says, hey, the user sending this email is
>> abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Then it tries to resolve server1.mysite.com and
>> figures out that there is no dns set up for such an animal. Then it spits
>> out the error message telling you so. I assume mysite.com is your home
>> virtual site on the raq (the very first one set up). You should create an
>A
>> record for server1.mysite.com, and sendmail will cease to complain.
>>
>> Kevin
>
>Sort of.  I just added am email alias for abc on server1.mysite.com  Is this
>what you're saying?  It didn't seem to help.
>
>I am leasing a RAQ4i
>
>server1.mysite.com is the admin ID for my server which has it's own IP.  I
>did not establish a web site there as I assumed it was for admin only.  I
>have no idea why the leasing company assigned a name like this since all
>access is via IP.
>
>mysite.com is it's own IP and where I set up the user abc@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>AlphaMail.cgi is sending mail to an entirely different email address, not
>sure why abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is coming up in the bounces.  According to
>the leasing company the paths for CGI and sendmail are correct and I
>verified them.
>
>I did the setups from the RAQ4 manual and will be honest in saying I am very
>green at this.  The manual appears to have been written by an expert who
>assumes that anyone using the manual would understand all the relationships
>of what is going on.  Thank you for your help.


When you setup the domain on the RAQ4i web based front end, did you have all of the domain boxes set to mysite.com?

The fields I refer to are called:

Domain Name:
Web Server Aliases:
Email Server Aliases:


I know when we got our first RAQ4, it was a bit of a shock that email didn't work as we expected it to, WITHOUT having all three of those setup as the same mysite.com.

hth

Greg


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