changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?

[Dan Busarow]

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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