Bob Crandell wrote:
> I'm starting to run into cases where users of the same domain are
> living on different servers. Let's use my domain, crandell.net as
> an example. My server in-house is crandell.net and I use fetchmail
> to pull the mail in from NetIdentity, who is actually hosting the
> domain. My wife's email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My
> father's email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't send email to
> him from in here. I've tried aliasing to forward but no joy. How
> do I get mail from this crandell.net to that crandell.net?
When a program tries to send mail, it asks the local DNS server for an
MX record for the hostname in the email address. So if you send to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], it does this.
host -t mx crandell.net
crandell.net mail is handled by 0 inbound.crandell.net.criticalpath.net.
Are you running a DNS server "in here"? Is it serving something
different for crandell.net's MX records? It should say the
same thing as the external DNS server. If you are, and it doesn't,
then fix it.
If that isn't the problem, then does your dad have an account on your
local machine so that mail is delivered there? If so, either delete
the account or set up your MTA to not try to deliver local mail
locally. (There are too many MTAs, and they're all different, so I'm
not going to try to guess how that's done.)
If that isn't the problem, we need more info. What happens to
mail you send to your dad?
> Thanks in advance to the smartest group around.
What, you're also asking somebody smart???
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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