Re: [TCLUG:13453] sendmail error, stumpped

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On 8 Feb 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:

> Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com> writes:
> 
> > Whichever machine has the MX record pointing to it for the domain.  When
> > e-mail gets sent to mn.mtu.net (or mtu.net?) which machine does it go
> > to?  If you're sending e-mail to someone@mn.mtu.net, and the mail goes
> > to eggplant, then eggplant will need mn.mtu.net in it's sendmail.cw.
> > 
> > If the cw file is empty, make sure that sendmail is even using it:
> > grep "^Fw" /etc/sendmail.cf to see what file it wants.  If you don't
> > come up with any matches, then try grep "^Cw" and see if it's just
> > specified in the .cf
> 
> Mail never goes to mn.mtu.net.  I suppose if it would then it should goto
> disk.mn.mtu.net.  I always address my mail as jpschewe@disk.mn.mtu.net or
> jpschewe@eggplant.mn.mtu.net, so it knows which machine to goto.  I just tried
> adding mn.mtu.net to /etc/sendmail.cw on disk.mn.mtu.net and still no luck.
> It's almost as if the mail never gets off eggplant.mn.mtu.net.  I'm sending
> mail from eggplant to disk, disk has sendmail always running as a daemon,
> eggplant does not have sendmail running, but /etc/sendmail.cf on eggplant has
> disk as the smart host.

Have you also added the local hostname (eg, on disk, you'd put
disk.mn.mtu.net) in sendmail.cw?

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