sendmail on server with ip aliases

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed Jul 2 23:49:19 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:56:58 -0400, "D W" <lists at duanewinner.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having a problem with sendmail on some of my servers supporting several
> virtual apache hosts. Because these servers have 5-10 ip aliases bound, it
> sometimes trips up sendmail when sending outbound mail to my smarthost. All
> servers are configured to use the same smarthost. But on one of the hosts,
> sendmail will send out as the one of the virtual hosts instead of the main
> host, which is what I need.
>
> Example: webhost01.webdomain.com is the host.
> Five ip aliases for apache virtual servers:

Something is probably missing below the last quoted line.

Are you using jails for the virtual hosts?  If not, then you are
probably using *one* Sendmail instance for all the domains, which still
sends emails as the primary hostname but should work fine...



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