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- From: jeffs@next-demo.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Schluep)
- Subject: Re: sendmail problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.154634.29195@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: nextnorth.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: The Ohio State University
- References: <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:46:34 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph
- Chin) writes:
- > I've just noticed that since I upgraded to 3.0, I can no longer send email
- > to accounts within my domain (prodigy.bc.ca). Is there a bug in the 3.0
- > sendmail.cf file? The NeXT is a mail client on the network, and the mail
- > host is a Sun Sparc server. Everything worked fine before the 3.0 upgrade.
- >
- > Any ideas? Thanks.
- >
- > Joe
- >
-
- I had a similar problem. Mail to host faxgate.acs.ohio-state.edu would
- not work correctly for me (my domain is acs.ohio-state.edu).
-
- When I investigated the problem I discovered that all mail sent to a
- host inside my domain was considered "local". What this means is that next's
- sendmail is configured to send local mail without the domain. Thus mail to
- "joe@faxgate.acs.ohio-state.edu" would be sent as "joe@faxgate". The host that
- handles mail for faxgate wanted to see the whole domain and so it bounced the
- message.
-
- I reconfigured the sendmail.mailhost.cf (this was the sendmail config
- that I was using) to send mail to the next's in my netinfo config as "local"
- and everything else as "non-local". This solved my problem.
-
- I'm not sure if my problem was the same as yours but it sounds like it.
-
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