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Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

 
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Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

As title.

I only found the following lines in sendmail.cf:
# fallback MX host
#O FallbackMXhost=fall.back.host.net

# if we are the best MX host for a site, try it directly instead of config err
#O TryNullMXList

But it seems they are of no use.

I just want to let this sendmail server relay the non-local-domain mails to other mail servers.

Any ideas?

Thanks & Merry X-mas!

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Sridhar Bhaskarla
Honored Contributor

Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Hi,

MX=mail exchange host is to be specified in the DNS configuration. Check with your DNS administrator.

As per your solution, you need to configure your sendmail.cf with a combination of DS and Dm macros.

Edit your sendmail.cf and search for DS
and add your mailserver there. So all the non-local mail will be forwarded through this server.

And add an entry like Dm yourdomain.com and uncomment the line starting with R$* < @ $* > $* in the ruleset.


Then restart sendmail using /sbin/init.d/sendmail script.

-Sri
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Marco Paganini
Respected Contributor

Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Hello,

"MX" refers to a DNS record, not a specific sendmail configuration. The MX record will be used to tell other mail agents where to deliver email for your domain.

If you want to relay non-local mails to another place, check the DS configuration parameter on your /etc/sendmail.cf.

Regards,
Paga
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discoverer
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Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Hi Sridhar Bhaskarla & Marco Paganini & other friends,

Thanks for your help!

Yes, I think DS can realize this function, but it ***didn't use the MX record*** of the target mailserver in the DNS server.

Sorry about that I didn't express my situation clearly.
Now Let me clarify it more clear:

* Goal:
let the sendmail server sends the non-local-domain mails to other specific mail servers ***via DNS server's MX record***. (just like the real world: you send a mail to me, through your company's mail server to mime, via the Internet DNS server's MX record)

* situation:
1. mailserver1's full hostname: mail.domain1.mycompany.com.am
2. mailserver2's full hostname: mail.domain2.mycompany.com.am
3. mailserver3 .........
3. DNS SERVER's config: (already have the MX record for both domain1.mycompany.com.am & domain2.mycompany.com.am)
/etc/named.data/db.mycompany :
domain1 IN MX 10 mail.domain1.mycompany.com.am.
domain2 IN MX 10 mail.domain2.mycompany.com.am.
domain3 ...........

* issue:
Now, from mailserver1 I send a mail to user@domain2.mycompany.com.am, but failed to send. Following is the log in mailserver1's /var/adm/syslog/maillog

Dec 26 11:43:05 .... sendmail[1239]: XAA27568: to=, delay=12:08:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, relay=domain2.mycompany.com.am, stat=Deferred: Name server: domain2.mycompany.com.am: host name lookup failure

Anything unclear pls tell me.

Thanks for your consideration!

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Steven Sim Kok Leong
Honored Contributor

Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Hi,

Verify the MX records in your DNS server:

# nslookup
> set type=mx
> domain2.xyz.com.am

domain2.xyz.com.am mail exchanger = 10 mail.domain2.xyz.com.am

Check also the name resolution configuration ie. /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts if any of them are used.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
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discoverer
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Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Hi Steven & other friends,

MX record was verified OK in all the mailservers & DNS server.

To be clearly,
Mailserver1 uses qmail(smtp+pop3) system, and mailserver2 uses sendmail+qpopper, they all have the correct MX record in a same DNS server.
I can send a mail to: user@domain2.mycompany.com.am via mailserver1's qmail-SMTP,but fail in reverse .

So, I think something of sendmail must be configed to use the MX record.

Any idea?

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discoverer
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Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Additional to avoid misunderstanding:
'fail in reverse' means:
sent a mail to user@domain1.mycompany.com.am via mailserver2's sendmail, but failed

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discoverer
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Re: Enable MX in sendmail (V8.7.1 in HPUX10.20)?

Oops, all my friends

Finally I FOUND THE REASON!! :

After create/remove the /etc/resolv.conf in the sendmail server, the sendmail daemon must restart to use or not to use DNS.
Just don't like others command which can notice the change immediately, e.g. nslookup/telnet/...

So, now it's the author, my respected Eric Allman's turn ...
:-)

Thanks for everybody's help!!!

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