Guy, You are the man! I knew it had to be something stupid that I did on initial setup, and it certainly was. /etc/mail/local-host-names had the otherdomain.dom listed in it. I fixed it and now everything seems to be right as rain! Thank you sir! Tomas > -----Original Message----- > From: Guy Fraser [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:02 AM > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: More on /etc/aliases forwarding wrong user > > This may be simple. > > I will guess that you have put otherdomain.dom in your > /etc/mail/local-host-names file. > If you added {IIRC} a Cwotherdomain.dom to your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, > this would explain it as well. > > If you are not using sendmail, I can't help you. I work for a large ISP > and Qmail just can't handle our requirements. > > Guy > > Tom Rymes wrote: > > > Well, so far the only progress I have made is determining that I > > somehow opened up my mailserver as an open relay....ugh! That's solved > > now, but still no movement on this issue as to forwarding. > > > > The plot thickens here, because it seems that sendmail thinks it > > processing mail for both of my domains. (which it isn't. I have two > > separate mail servers) Anyway, when I sent an email from a user on my > > RedHat box to a user at my other domain, I get an undeliverable > > message. The most intriguing part of which is: > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > ... while talking to [127.0.0.1]: > > > > My RedHat machine thinks that my other domain is hosted at 127.0.0.1. > > This is not the case, and is not a DNS issue, b/c everything works > > fine at my other domain. I double checked /etc/hosts and there is no > > errant entry there, and a quick grep of the sendmail.cf file reveals > > no otherdomain.dom entries there. Any ideas here? > > > > To recap, any mail forwarded to username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is actually > > delivered to username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx If I send mail from the > > RedHat machine to a username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and that username does > > not exist on the redhat machine, the mail fails to be delivered. If > > the username does exist locally, then it is delivered to the redhat > > machine, NOT the other domain's mailserver. Obviously I screwed > > somethign up here by accidentally keying my other domain name on the > > redhat machine. however, I have no idea where that would be.... > > > > Thank you for any info, or tips as to where I should look for help... > > > > Tom > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
