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- From: hoover@math22.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Schuerkamp)
- Subject: BIG problem with IDA sendmail and forwarding
- Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator)
- Message-ID: <BxLLrL.K9u@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:14:08 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: math22.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
- Organization: Math MadHouse Bielefeld, Germany
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- Dear netters,
-
- we have got a big problem with our sendmail installation. Due to
- inconsistencies I decided to switch to the concept of one "knows it
- all" mailhost which takes care of the large aliases database. This
- host is called
-
- mail.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
-
- and serves a net of about 30 Ultrix workstations. I set up the clients
- .cf file to point to this host as the relay host and use HIDDENDOMAIN
- and HIDDENDOMAINHOST keywords for hide all those stations from the
- outside world. Furthermore I use a domaintable which consists of
- entries similar to the following
-
- mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de math22
-
- which is supposed to tell sendmail that mail addressed to user@math22
- should be sent to mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (aka mail.mathematik)
- for evaluation. This works just fine, but if there's a forwarding
- entry on this host where the mail is supposed to end up according to
- the main database on the mailserver, I get tons of email (doesn't stop
- until I kill the local daemon ) and bouncing emails ad infinitum. I
- thought that an alias should not be evaluated twice, so if our
- mailserver says that mail should be delivered to user@math22 and
- there's a forward to math18, well, then tell math18 that the
- mail's supposed to end up there according to forwarding and forget all
- about domaintables etc. What am I doing wrong here? Is there a better
- concept (IDA sendmail ignores Ultrix yp services) for what I am trying
- to accomplish? Our setup is IDA sendmail 5.65 / 1.4.4 on Ultrix 4.2A.
- Please help, all this mail bouncing stuff is driving me mad. :-)
-
- Please make any answers via email and I'll summarize if there's
- interest.
-
- Thanks,
- hoover
- --
- "All this traffic choking our towns freaking me out bringing me down
- Knocking down houses build more lanes--once was a problem now it's
- insane" ---Luka Bloom, 'The acoustic motorbike'
- Uwe 'Hoover' Schuerkamp hoover@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
-