Sendmail.cf is not quering itself but MX record for relaying!!!

[Vikas_9]

Dear All,
I want to use the sendmail's delivery agents for mail delivery(Local and one customized), but in place of using its own macro's, it is using MX entries to deliver the mails. For to get rid of this, I've added the DS[mail.relay.server] entry in cf file, but still it is using MX record...kindly suggest what to do.

Other problem which I'm facing is while restarting the sendmail, it is giving one warnning message...which is saying
"Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE"
Kindly suggest me for this also.

Best Refards,
Vikas

[Steven E. Protter]

It check what is really going on with the mail

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 someone@yahoo.com

Type some text like this...


Type a dot like this

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You'll either see interaction with the relay server or with yahoo's(in this case) smtp server.

If the machine is on the public Internet and the relay server is rejecting its mail, because it hasn't been set up to allow traffic from your IP address, the sendmail daemon may be functioning correctly by using DNS to get the mail delivered.

It is after all just the mailman.

SEP

[Balaji N]

hi
a couple of queries.

by anychance is ur .cf file being regenerated from the mc file before u sendmail is started.

also, when u do an address test (sendmail -bv address), what is the output. does it say directly deliverable or via a relay.

and u might need to check your service switch file to see if it is using DNS.

-balaji(some incoherent thoughts which come to my mind)