topic Re: sendmail mailertable in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail mailertable

Thomas Broccoletti — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:57:23 GMT

I am trying to get the mailer table to route outbound mail to a different relay based on domain name.

I am not having much luck with it.

any sugestions ?

I'm running hpux 11.11 V1 sendmail 8.9.3 PHNE_29774

Re: sendmail mailertable

TTr — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:17:33 GMT

I think you need to enable the mailertable feature in sendmail.cf and create the /etc/mail/mailertable database

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailertables.html

Re: sendmail mailertable

Thomas Broccoletti — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:53:25 GMT

Hi

I have done all the configuration stuff according to another thead on this forum.

I also ran the makemap to create the db.

Re: sendmail mailertable

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:59:22 GMT

Shalom,

Lets see the sendmail macro compile script an example of the mailer table entries and any errors.

Also, consider upgrading sendmail to a secure version.

SEP

Re: sendmail mailertable

TTr — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:23 GMT

Check and fix the permissions/owners of the new files in /etc/mail
Restart sendmail
Any errors in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log?

Re: sendmail mailertable

Thomas Broccoletti — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:31:10 GMT

.bankofamerica.coms smtp:pandora.gabrobins.com

Re: sendmail mailertable

TTr — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:05:27 GMT

Two things
1. .bankofamerica.coms smtp:[pandora.gabrobins.com]
(note the brackets around the relay host]
2. There are some rules that you need to uncomment in sendmail.cf. Search for mailertable and you will find two text blocks. One has 5 lines that start with the comment
# not local -- try mailer table lookup
and another one for rule S90 taht has 6 lines. Uncomment those 11 lines that start with "R...".
Rebuild the mailertable map and restart sendmail.

Re: sendmail mailertable

Thomas Broccoletti — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:02:54 GMT

I have done that and it's still not working.
Any other ideas ?

Re: sendmail mailertable

TTr — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:49:04 GMT

I tested on my UNIX workstation and it works fine. So you have not "done all that" as you repeatedly say. What exactly is "all that"? You are not giving any details. You were repeatedly asked to provide details from the /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file. Did you test with sending a test mail message? Did you follow the mail.log file to find out where the mail went? Any errors when sendmail starts up?

Re: sendmail mailertable

Thomas Broccoletti — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:02:47 GMT

Re: sendmail mailertable

Thomas Broccoletti — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:06:47 GMT

The stuff I was referring to was all the changes required in the sendmail.cf file.

There is no error messages in the mail.log.

When I sendmail via sendmail -v test@domain.com it seems like it ignores the mailertable.

the command I use to make the mailertable dbm is
makemap dbm /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable.list

Re: sendmail mailertable

CBee — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:17:06 GMT

Any luck jet? I've struggled with this on linux. I ended up installing webmin (www.webmin.org) and let that guide me.

The missing step in the mentioned guides is the rebuild of the sendmail.cf files after enabling the feature in sendmail.mc.

BE WARNED: rebuilding the sendmail.cf will ruin your day if you have manually edited the sendmail.cf file! Even webmail steps into this pitfall.

Hence, either update the sendmail.mc to include the updates you need in the sendmail.cf or save the current sendmail.cf file, rebuild a new one and then redo the changes to the sendmail.cf file.

The book sendmail from O'Reilly (first edition 1993) was my friend here. I bet you cannot maintain a current msExchange with documentation from that time..