Re: [cobalt-users] A Mailing Conumdrum ?!

[john_galt@xxxxxxx]

> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:39:09 +0100
> From: Revd Leonard Payne <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [cobalt-users] A Mailing Conumdrum ?!
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi Guys - Long time no speak to.
> 
> Well here's a little problem.
> 
> It may be OT but I hope someone can help.
> 
> I have a virtual site   www.thisis.mydomain.com
> 
> This domain runs website only, i.e. mail for this domain is handled
> elsewhere and MX Records pointed appropriately.  It all works.
> 
> However, when I run a script that uses sendmail to send a piece of mail to
> one of the users that has mail elsewhere, it rejects because the user is not
> known to my system. That is, the system knows that it is
> thisis.mydomain.com and wants to handle the mail.
> 
> Is there anyway that I can get this mail out of the door?
> 
> I cannot change the end users address and I cannot change the name of this
> site.
> 
> Any help
> 
> regards
> 
> Revd Leonard
> 
> --__--__--
> 

Most likely, sendmail is doing a reverse lookup on the IP addresses on
your box and setting up to receive mail for those domains. 

There's a configuration option for that. I believe that it defaults to
probe all interfaces, and you have to set the option DontProbeInterfaces
or something like that. It's probably in sendmail.cf somewhere. I'm not
sure how that file is affected by the GUI, so if you edit it manually
(through telnet) to fix it, it might not stay fixed the next time you
change the mail settings in the GUI.

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