Sendmail && Google Apps Email - Not Working Together

Schiz0 schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 14:55:27 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Mark Price <mark at rootbsd.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Below is the output of /var/log/maillog. I'm trying to send an email
>> from the "irc" account on the server, to "staff at domain.tld". I think
>> maybe sendmail is getting confused because the hostname of the FreeBSD
>> box is also "domain.tld", the same host I'm trying to send outgoing
>> mail to.
>
> Yes, that is the problem.  In order for you to send mail out to
> domain.tld, sendmail must not think that it is configured to handle
> domain.tld locally.  I would recommend changing your hostname to
> something like server1.domain.tld and making sure you don't have the
> domain 'domain.tld' listed alone in your sendmail config files.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Price
> RootBSD
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>

Thanks Mark, that solved the problem. I appreciate the help.


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