SUMMARY sendmail & MX records

From: Mark Zander <mzander_at_dagonet.spcc.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:54:57 -0500 ()

Thanks to all who replied!!

Gustavo Gibson da Silva <gupe_at_elogica.com.br> (special
thanks)
Jeff Detterman <jldetter_at_cca.rockwell.com> (special thanks)
David Hoyt <dhoyt_at_pcix.com>
Paul A Sand <pas_at_unh.edu>
Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
crossmd_at_heu534.ha.uk.sbphrd.com
Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
Hans Ranke <Hans.Ranke_at_Regent.E-Technik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Ollivier Robert <ollivier.robert_at_eurocontrol.fr>
Patrick O'Brien <pobrien_at_cfa.harvard.edu>
Dave Sill <de5_at_sws5.ctd.ornl.gov>


It turned out to be two
problems. The first was relatively simple and everybody
who replied pointed it out:

I needed to define spcc.com as local to dagonet.spcc.com
in the sendmail.cf file - Cwspcc.com

That allowed me to receive mail to user_at_spcc.com.

The other problem (send mail out through dagonet) was a
little more well hidden - I had to go through the config
file pretty closely to notice that it had originally been
set up to send mail through a gateway simply called
spcc.com. When the MX record for spcc.com was changed to
point to dagonet, dagonet would not talk to itself. Once I
changed the config file to go directly to the remote host
instead of thinking it was going through a gateway
everything worked ok.

Thanks again to everyone who responded and a special thanks
to those who then answered more in depth questions.

----------------------
Mark Zander ==> mark_zander_at_mercury.spcc.com
Operations Manager
Shepard Poorman Communications Corporation
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
Third Stone From The Sun
----------------------
May this day find you with peace,
   and leave you with hope.
Received on Fri Sep 13 1996 - 22:33:01 NZST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed Nov 08 2023 - 11:53:47 NZDT