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From: lcdservices on 3 Jun 2010 10:36 my email is not hosted on the same machine as my website, which is triggering a 67 error code when sending to emails on the same domain. basically, for user(a)mydomain.com, sendmail looks for the localhost "user", can't find it, and throws an error -- when it should be sending the email based on the existing MX Record -- which is pointing elsewhere. is there any sendmail argument or config setting that will force a DNS lookup so that it uses the correct MX record rather than trying to send to localhost?
From: okie on 3 Jun 2010 11:49 On Jun 3, 9:36 am, lcdservices <lcdwebservi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > my email is not hosted on the same machine as my website, which is > triggering a 67 error code when sending to emails on the same domain. > basically, for u...(a)mydomain.com, sendmail looks for the localhost > "user", can't find it, and throws an error -- when it should be > sending the email based on the existing MX Record -- which is pointing > elsewhere. > > is there any sendmail argument or config setting that will force a DNS > lookup so that it uses the correct MX record rather than trying to > send to localhost? What is in your /etc/mail/local-host-names file?
From: Andrzej Adam Filip on 3 Jun 2010 13:10
lcdservices <lcdwebservices(a)gmail.com> wrote: > my email is not hosted on the same machine as my website, which is > triggering a 67 error code when sending to emails on the same domain. > basically, for user(a)mydomain.com, sendmail looks for the localhost > "user", can't find it, and throws an error -- when it should be > sending the email based on the existing MX Record -- which is pointing > elsewhere. > > is there any sendmail argument or config setting that will force a DNS > lookup so that it uses the correct MX record rather than trying to > send to localhost? By default sendmail fills/guesses automatically list of local email domains (delivered via local mailer). The default behavior can be changed: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/tweaking_config.html#confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES To get list of local email domains use: echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt -- [pl>en Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi(a)onet.eu : Andrzej.Filip(a)gmail.com http://open-sendmail.sourceforge.net/ http://anfi.homeunix.org/ I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out. -- Judge Harold T. Stone |