Sendmail mailertable troubles

[Peter Bonivart]

Just a guess from a tired list reader who really should be doing
something else Friday night. Try adding this line:

mydomain.com        smtp:[172.16.0.76]

Notice no dot first. Also, be careful editing the cf-file directly, you
should edit the mc-file and let make build the cf for you.

/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

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Al Cooper wrote:
> I am attempting to use a Cobalt RaQ550 running MS/SA to "front" a series of
> Exchange servers and provide spamming filtering.  I have MS/SA running with
> no issues.  The RaQ550's sendmail.cf does not have support for mailertable
> feature, so I edited the sendmail.cf file and added:
>
> Kmailertable hash /etc/mail/mailertable
>
> I then added a file at /etc/mail/mailertable in which contains the following
> entry.
>
> .mydomain.com        smtp:[172.16.0.76]
>
> in which mydomain.com is the domain I want to forward and 172.16.0.76 is the
> exchange server.
>
> I pointed the MX records for mydomain.com to the Cobalt box.
>
> I then restart sendmail and send a test e-mail to user at mydomain.com. I
> receive the following error:
>
>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <user at mydomain.com>
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 5.0.0 MX list for mydomain.com. points back to (cobalt box)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
>
> It looks like sendmail is not using the mailertable file to determine the
> next hop for the mail.
>
> What am I missing??????
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Al Cooper
>