RE: More on /etc/aliases forwarding wrong user

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:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:02 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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 [email protected] is actually
> > delivered to [email protected]. If I send mail from the
> > RedHat machine to a [email protected] 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
> >
> >
> 
> 
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