"Anuerin G. Diaz" wrote: > > hi femme, > > again i would like to ask for your help. i already posted this to the > local LUG but have not received any reply for the past two days and i > sort of need this while i have the free time. thanks... > > ===================== > to the list members, > > this is the post that i sent to the Philippine LUG and have not > received any response which means either the experienced users are not > yet in or they think this is to simple to be solved by RTFM. > unfortunately i dont know much about MTAs. i know this is RH specific > but this is what i have to work on and i have to do this in order to > start my little 'open source/information-technology awareness campaign' > and start pushing GNU/Linux (especially Mandrake) to some of my > '{un|mis}informed' colleagues. > > i will be grateful to any replies that will come my way and ,if i do > have some questions, i may have to ask you directly because of my > problems with posting to the list. > > thank you very much! > > ===================== > > since i had no reply from my post yesterday about relaying mail to a > redhat server, i delved into the Mail-Administrator how-to but still > cant figure out some things. here is the scenario > > [SCENARIO] > we have a Exchange server here at the office named exchange.msi.net.ph > which handles all of our mailing needs (except that it has no > reverse-lookup capabilities). > > i am setting up a local mailing list on a RedHat 7.2 server (named here > as gateway) with sendmail-8.11.6-3. i have set-up Mailman with relative > success. i can send mail to the employees using the exchange server > by using the commandline mail utility. Mailman could also send > notifications even to outside accounts. what i cannot do is to have the > redhat server receive mails for [user]@gateway.msi.net.ph. i tried > sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with testuser set in the > /etc/aliases file as > > testuser: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > but the mail bounces back with exchange saying that the user is not > recognized. > > [quote] > Your message > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: test > Sent: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:19:05 +0800 > > did not reach the following recipient(s): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 28 May 2002 10:20:35 +0800 > The recipient name is not recognized > <snipped server specific ids> > Unknown Recipient > > [/quote] > > now i dont know whats wrong but my theory is that either > > 1) the exchange is not relaying the mail to the gateway server (but i > can access http://gateway.msi.net.ph without difficulty so that rules > out name resolution). > > or > > 2) i dont have a receiving application on the RH server's end. can you > suggest any steps that i have not taken? > > ===================== > > ciao! > > -- > > "Programming, an artform that fights back." > > ============================= > Anuerin G. Diaz > Design Engineer > Millennium Software, Incorporated > 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, > Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City > > Tel# 637-4634 loc. 75 > Fax# 637-4679 > =============================
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