get local sendmail to use MX records

[Gerard Meijer]

Yes the grep suggested by Mark was appropriate. I did that and it returned 
nothing.

Nslookup on the server shows the right MX records for the specific domain.

I really don't know what it is.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Barniskis" <nalists at scls.lib.wi.us>
To: "Gerard Meijer" <gmeijer at palmweb.nl>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: get local sendmail to use MX records


> Gerard Meijer wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I'm absolutely sure that this is not the case anymore. I removed 
>> everything.
> ...
>>> If I followed you correctly, "server B" *formerly* was the appropriate 
>>> end point for mail for "domain.com". If that is true, then on server B, 
>>> the sendmail config probably indicates that mail destined for domain.com 
>>> is delivered locally. Remove that indicator and it should revert to MX 
>>> lookup behavior to find the appropriate handler for the domain. There 
>>> may be multiple places in the sendmail config where domain.com is named 
>>> for different purposes. Hunt them all down and kill them.
>
> Nevertheless... the grep suggested by another poster seems completely 
> appropriate. There are few other explanations than "sendmail config 
> error". You restarted sendmail after the config change, right?
>
> Another test you could try would be to fire up nslookup on server B's 
> command line. If you ask there for the MX record in question, do you 
> actually get the right answer?
>
>
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