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RE: MX secondary, dns and sendmail - what's wrong?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Sat Nov 21 23:39:27 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:40:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: Kenneth Ho <macbrush@macbrush.com.hk>
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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Kenneth Ho wrote:
> I am using a box with 5.1/5.2 components mixed together. I am having a
> similar headache with sendmail setup. What I need is fairly simple, a backup
> server cache all the mail while the main server is down. I was told to do
> the following, and I did.
>
> 1. Setting up DNS record
> doamin.name. MX 10 main.server.
> domain.name. MX 50 secondary.server.
>
> 2. Put the domain name in main's sendmail.cw and in relay_allow of the
> secondary.
>
> 3. Test it by relaying mail through secondary server.
>
> I am sure everything was set correctly, so I thought it should works. My
> main server was actually down last night, so the secondary answered all
> incoming mail traffic, then I've got following error:
>
> The original message was received at Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:41:52 +0800
> from philemon.xc.org [204.31.147.20]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <macbrush@macbrush.com.hk>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 croaky.macbrush.com.hk. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
> problem?)
> 554 <macbrush@macbrush.com.hk>... Local configuration error
>
> I know there is something missing in sendmail config, anyone came across
> this problem could shine me a light? I really like to make it works before I
> have to consider qmail. Thanks in advance.
>
"Mail loops back to me" is a FAQ re: sendmail. Read the sendmail FAQ
at http://www.sendmail.org. I had it and fixed it!
Cheers!
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Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
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http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
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