PARTIAL SUMMARY: sendmail: How to always tack on _at_domain for outgoing mail.

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:31:06 +0100 (MET)

Hello,

Well: I've partially solved it. The problem was actually my unfamiliarity
with the m4 language. I have added several FEATURE lines to the *.m4 file
of the mail server and was not aware that if I comment out a line with

#FEATURE(.....)

the line is still taken into account!! I have the mail server setup
cleaned up now and there's no need anymore for Digital Unix to append the
local domain name to outgoing local mails.

However, this problem is still open:

> P.S: As an aside: I have upgraded one machine to Digital Unix 4.0E and
> found the following strange behaviour: The local mail relay
> is defined as finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at which has both, an DNS
> A record and a DNS MX record. However the MX record points to our
> campus wide mailgate. Now all outgoing e-mail, even if it's a local
> e-mail goes through the campus mailgate and comes back to our local
> mail server. This is not necessary, IMHO.

Any idea anyone how to avoid this?

Tom

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