Here is a snipet of log: Dec 13 18:00:29 ocicat sendmail[12117]: gBE20Td12117: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=619, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1] Dec 13 18:00:29 ocicat sendmail[12118]: gBE20Td12117: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=120619, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown Dec 13 18:00:29 ocicat sendmail[12118]: gBE20Td12117: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=120619, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown Dec 13 18:00:29 ocicat sendmail[12118]: gBE20Td12117: gBE20Td12118: DSN: User unknown
He doesn't have a local account. Here is what dig dug: root@ocicat:/etc# dig crandell.net ; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> crandell.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3084 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;crandell.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: crandell.net. 7010 IN A 216.10.106.149 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: crandell.net. 7101 IN NS ns1.mailbank.com. crandell.net. 7101 IN NS ns2.mailbank.com. crandell.net. 7101 IN NS ns3.mailbank.com. crandell.net. 7101 IN NS ns4.mailbank.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns3.mailbank.com. 1101 IN A 64.15.175.3 ns4.mailbank.com. 1101 IN A 216.10.106.120 ;; Query time: 25 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Fri Dec 13 18:03:39 2002 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 162 So for Sendmail: # who I send unqualified names to (null means deliver locally) DRmailhost.nu-world.com You think? Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >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??? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Voice 541-689-9159 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Eugene, Or. 97402 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
