Re: tlug: another sendmail problem

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> >>>>> Scott Stone writes:  (on 21 Oct 98)
> 
> > 
> > OK, on my friend's machine, which is running TL (albeit he has manually
> > messed with almost every config file on the system by now, so I have no
> > idea what's what anymore), mail to any user gets all routed to one
> > specific user.  ie, if I send mail to sstone@example.com, it ends up
> > going to the address 'tovl' (my friend's primary user account).
> > /var/log/maillog says, for the connection from my machine,
> > 
> > "relay=IDENT:tovl@example.com"
> > 
> > what's going on?  He had a 'DM tovl@example.com' in
> > /etc/sendmail.cf, so we put sendmail.cf back to the original, but it's
> > still doing it.  does it cache this behavior anywhere?  What's the deal?
> 
> Not completely sure if I understand the problem (gave up on sendmail a
> while ago).  Your last couple of sentences remind me of something that
> has tripped me up in the past though (not sure if it's a help).
> 
> Remember that sendmail only reads sendmail.cf at startup.  If mail sent
> from the machine itself does what you expect, but mail received via smtp
> still maintains the old behaviour, you've probably forgotten to restart
> the sendmail daemon process.

Turns out it was a DNS problem with my friend's ISP - however, he DID have
sendmail misconfigured as well, before, like I said above - I fixed
sendmail, but the problem persisited, and we couldn't figure out why...
then we queried the MX records.. :)

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               <sstone@example.com>
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