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Re: Email (sorry - again) (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Rager)
Tue Oct 20 02:36:45 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 02:20:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Rager <redhat-list@actech.net>
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 02:19:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Rager <root@actech.net>
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Subject: Re: Email (sorry - again) (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Rager <root@actech.net>
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Subject: Re: Email (sorry - again)
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Anthony S. Nixon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am still having problems with email. Here is my setup. I have an RH5.0
> server running:
>
> Primary DNS
> Sendmail
> Apache/FTP
>
> I am using this server to host webpages and email accounts. It is the sole
> server in its domain. I have the MX record pointing to the server
> (server.foo.com):
>
> foo.com. IN NS server.foo.com.
>
> server IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.x (class C)
> foo.com. IN MX 10 server.foo.com.
>
> www IN CNAME server.foo.com.
> ftp IN CNAME server.foo.com.
>
> WWW and FTP works just fine. I can query with nslookup without problems.
> Here is my problem:
>
> When I send an email from an outside domain to user@foo.com, I get returned
> email stating the "MX Record is pointing to itself"? At first, I got a "We
> do not relay" message. Why would I have gotten that? So, I added a line in
> relay_allow stating foo.com. Now I am getting the MX record message. I have
> no problems sending email, just receiving. To be honest, I really don't know
> that if it did receive inbound mail that sendmail would put it in it's
> proper place. I did receive an email to root (on server.foo.com) saying the
> same message as I got from my returned email. Can someone shed some light on
> this? I have put a .procmailrc file in my users directory and a .forward
> also (what is the format of .forward and do I really need these?) following
> the directions in the dot file generator. ALL help is greatly appreciated.
>
Ok an easy one.
look at your sendmail.cw file it should be
here:
/etc/sendmail.cw
or
/etc/mail/sendmail.cw
add this line
your.fqdn
any.other.fqdn.alais
loose the relay allow line. Just use ip_allow.
Enjoy,
Richard Rager
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