changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?

[Chris St Denis]

Dan Busarow wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:11 PM, fred wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am having the exact same problem with a server running 
>> FreeBSD-7.0.
>>
>> The hostname is : server1.mydomain.com
>> MX for mydomain.com is not server1.
>>
>> sendmail -v user at mydomain.com < test.msg will result in user unknown
>>
>> but
>>
>> sendmail -v anotheruser at anotherdomain.com < test.msg will work.
>>
>> If anyone knows how to get around this?
>
> In your .mc file
>
> define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `true')
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris St Denis
>> Sent: 31 mars 2008 16:29
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?
>>
>> I've setup a new web server hostname doremi.ctgameinfo.com. When I try
>> to send mail to username at ctgameinfo.com it tries to deliver it locally
>> instead of to the mx server mx1.ctgameinfo.com.
>>
>> In previous versions this seems to work correctly. Why would it be
>> trying to deliver locally this time? I'm running default sendmail config
>> that comes with the standard install.
>>
>>
>> Another server I have seems to have this problem even worse. It's a web
>> server, and for any of the hundreds of domains hosted on it (www A
>> records pointed at it, but MX records pointed elseware) it also tries to
>> deliver locally. I was able to get this mostly working by using a
>> smarthost to the actual mail server, but I don't understand why it would
>> be ignoring the mx records.
>>
>> I've never had problems like these with previous versions. What has 
>> changed?
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Thanks, this seems to have fixed the problem.