Ooops I said that wrong. I havn't edited /etc/sendmail.cf at all - only
/etc/sendmail.cw
At 07:36 PM 9/24/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:17 PM 9/23/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>> That's all controlled by macros, so look at the *mc file your using to build
>sendmail.cf.
>
>Um.... sure hate to sound stupid, but what "*mc" file? I was editing /etc/sendmail.cf
>by hand - is that a bad thing to do?
>
>
>
>>-- Rob
>>
>>
>>--On 09/23/00 11:14:59 PM -0500 Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>hmm...I put the new domain first, in the sendmail.cf file, but when I
>>>sent a test mail from pine it's still using the old box.domain.tld.
>>>Is that because that's what' in /etc/hosts, if so does this simply
>>>mean that I have to change the box's hostname to the new domain
>>>alltogether?
>>>
>>> JW
>>>
>>>
>>>At 11:12 AM 9/22/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>>>>I'm presuming you're not interested in keeping domains separate
>>>>within sendmail (that is, set up virtual domains within sendmail).
>>>>If that assumption is correct, simply add all hostnames, hostname
>>>>and hostname+domain (ie., fully qualified) to the sendmail.cw file.
>>>>Sendmail will then happily act as the final delivery agent for the
>>>>those hosts. Sendmail can also, I believe, be configured to include
>>>>that information directly in the sendmail.cf file, but my book with
>>>>the m4 macros for building sendmail.cf is at my other office so I
>>>>can't give you syntax if you prefer to not include the sendmail.cw
>>>>file.
>>>>
>>>>-- Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--On 09/22/00 11:58:32 AM -0500 Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Howdy,
>>>>>
>>>>>We now have several domain names pointing to our main Red Hat
>>>>>server. Most of them are for various web sites and are only used
>>>>>by Apache. However we do have this situation: our original
>>>>>intention was to name this box newhostname.our_domain.our_tld and
>>>>>we did, and that's what's in /etc/hosts however we can't send mail
>>>>>to that box because all mail going to our domain is snarfed up by
>>>>>our NT mail server :-/ which my boss doesn't want to change.
>>>>>
>>>>>So he bought a new domain name today, just for the Linux server, the
>>>>>primary reason being that we should now be able to send and receive
>>>>>mail there.
>>>>>
>>>>>So my question is, do I need to put the new domain name in
>>>>>/etc/hosts, or anywhere else? If not will it affect sendmail? Will
>>>>>sendmail pick up mail sent to that domain simply because the DNS and
>>>>>MX record point there? And how will it know to put "from:
>>>>>*@newdomain.com" on outgoing mail?
>>>>>
>>>>>Basically I've never dealt with multiple host/domain names and I'm
>>>>>not sure what to do :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> JW
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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