mailertable being ignored - offTopic

[James Pifer]

Jeff,

Thanks, it was the leading "." causing the problem. Removed it, reran
make, and restarted MailScanner. It delivered my test message properly.

Thanks to all who responded.
James

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 19:36, Jeff Adams wrote:
> James,
>
> Your config looks fine, but my might want to add something to your
> mailertable file look like this:
>
> .mydomain.com esmtp:[192.168.1.5]
> mydomain.com esmtp:[192.168.1.5]
>
> Check this info to be sure, but I think the dot in front of your domain
> might be ment to translate user at host.mydomain.com and without the dot
> translates user at domain.com.
>
> Other mailertable tips:
> Make sure that you are creating your mailertable file with the proper
> database hash and check your logs for any errors.  Be sure that you are
> adding this feature to your sendmail.mc file, making the sendmail.cf
> file and installing that one.  Don't try to add the feature to
> sendmail.cf file by hand (I've known people who've tried this).
>
> Oh, and make sure that your relay system (192.168.1.5) speaks esmtp.
>  Older mail servers like MS Exchange 5.5 don't speak esmtp.
>
> Good luck,
> -jeff
>
> PS: here's a URL that  outlines the steps needed for getting mailertable
> to work.  (it's for freebsd, but it worked on my solaris system)
>
> http://freebsd.peon.net/tutorials/16/
>
> James Pifer wrote:
>
> >Sorry to the list for asking about a definite Sendmail problem, but I've
> >posted to Redhat's list and no one there was able to help. I
> >successfully tested our configuration using Redhat 8 in my home
> >environment, but now I'm having a problem trying to pilot it on a new
> >server in production. I can't get Sendmail to forward the mail to the
> >mail server specified in the mailertable.
> >
> >When a message comes in MailScanner does it's thing, but then Sendmail
> >sends the message back through the MX record instead of the server I
> >have specified. (Once this server replaces the one at MX record, I would
> >then get a mail loop problem: MX record points to itself). Here is what
> >I have:
> >Redhat 8, Sendmail(8.12.5-7)
> >
> >/etc/mail/relay-domains has one line:
> >mydomain.com
> >
> >/etc/mail/mailertable has one line:
> >.mydomain.com esmtp:[192.168.1.5]
> >
> >/etc/mail/local-host-names has no entries
> >
> >I ran "make" while in /etc/mail and it returned me to a prompt so I
> >think it ran ok. I restarted Sendmail. The damn thing is still relaying
> >the mail to the mail server at the MX record instead of forwarding it
> >directly to the server specified in the mailertable.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
> >Thanks,
> >James
> >
> >