[Mimedefang] SMTP configuration question

[Cormack, Ken]

-----Original Message-----
From: WBrown at e1b.org [mailto:WBrown at e1b.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:28 PM
To: MIMEDefang, 
Subject: [Mimedefang] SMTP configuration question


<snip>
> I have an MX record in our outside DNS servers that gets the mail to 
> Milton, where I am failing to understand what I need to do.  I have in my 
> mailertable "eriecc.wnyric.org  smtp:mailserver.wnyric.org"  I also had an

> MX record in the internal DNS that pointed back to milton, but the error 
> messages I was receiving pointed me to removing that record.  Should I put

> in on "eriecc   IN MX 10 mailserver.wnyric.org."?

> Is there some file I should be able to use (mailertable isn't doing it) to

> redirect the mail to my mailserver from Milton?
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We'll get the basics out of the way...

Make sure you have mailertable support enabled in your sendmail.mc file, as
follows:
	FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')
If not, add it, rebuild your sendmail.cf, restart sendmail, and try again.

Try these entries (both of them) in your mailertable:
	eriecc.wnyric.org       smtp:[mailserver.wnyric.org]
	.eriecc.wnyric.org      smtp:[mailserver.wnyric.org]

Make sure the mailertable is properly hashed into a working mailertable.db

Make sure your sendmail.cf file has the desired mailer (grep "^Msmtp"
sendmail.cf)

Make sure the mailserver.wnyric.org host has an entry for eriecc.wnyric.org
in it's local-host-names file:
	FEATURE(use_cw_file)    (put this in sendmail.mc)

Then give it a try.  If it fails to forward the mail on to
mailserver.wnyric.org, give a yell, and show us the exact log entries from
all systems involved.

KEN CORMACK, RHCE
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    Open Systems Group
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