Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3: Sendmail issue still not solved

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

INRE [cobalt-users] RaQ3: Sendmail issue still not solved:
> Hi All;
>
> To refresh your memories, here is the issue:
>
> When sending an email from an account on our server to an EXTERNAL email
> account It does not go through and I get the following error message;
>
> ******************* begin error message ******************
> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
>
>       Subject:	Test message
>       Sent:	1/28/2003 10:18 AM
>
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
>
>       'kpodmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx' on 1/28/2003 10:18 AM
>             550 <kpodmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown
> ***************** end error message *********************
>
> Please note: cityofgp.com is NOT hosted on our server!
>
> As you can see it is not a relaying issue. We know the address is valid
> because we can successfully send to this address through another email
> server such as our ISP, hotmail, etc. I have checked the main config
> files, I can't see anything obviously wrong, but most of the config is
> Greek to me, so there could be a dozen problems and I would not know it.
> I have been trying everything I could think of, and am at a loss.
>
> After my last posting of this problem I tried putting sendmail in test
> mode as suggested. Here is what I did.
>
> cd /usr/sbin
> sendmail -bt
> 0,3 kpodmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Here are the results.
>
> rewrite: ruleset   0   input: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset 199   input: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset 199 returns: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset  98   input: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset  98 returns: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset 198   input: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset 198 returns: $# local $: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset   0 returns: $# local $: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset   3   input: $# local $: kpodmore @ cityofgp . com
> rewrite: ruleset   3 returns: $# local $: kpodmore @ cityofgp . Com
>
> Beyond this I don't know what else to do, signed desperate in Grande
> Prairie :-)
>

Your server "thinks" that cityofgp.com is a "local" domain for some reason 
and is trying to deliver to account "kpodmore" on "that" box.  Check your 
mail configuration files (aliases, access, virtusertable, etc) and make sure 
that this particular domain is _not_ listed there as a local hostname or some 
such.

-- 
Larry Smith
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