off topic: email forwarding assistance/guidance needed RESOLVED

[lester lasad]

--- "James R. Stevens"
<jstevens at ATHENSDISTRIBUTING.COM> wrote:

> Please read this short explanation.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html
>
> What your trying to do is pretty simple and very
> stable (In my
> experience)
>
> *** NOTE: make sure you have each domain name and
> sub-domain (Name-space
> listed in your local-host-names file.
> If not you will see MX loops. (File maybe located in
> /etc/mail)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lester lasad [mailto:llasad1 at YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:15 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: off topic: email forwarding
> assistance/guidance needed
>
> --- Marco Benton <marco at XSSNET.COM> wrote:
> >
> > lester lasad wrote:
> >
> > | <...snip...>
> > |
> > |
> > | I would like to explain my setup a little
> further.
> >  I have one
> > | sendmail server that relays (does not deliver to
> > local mail files
> > | on the server) to 2 seperate domains/hosts.  The
> > MX record for both
> > | domains (abc.com and xyz.com) point to my one
> > sendmail server (one
> > | ip).  With that said, do you see any problems
> > (mail routing loops)
> > | using the virtusertable? for example, in the
> > virtusertable I would
> > | put: lester at abc.com       lester at xyz.com
> > |
> > |> From my understanding that should relay the
> mail
> > to
> > | the server hosting the xyz.com domain.  However,
> I
> > still get mail
> > | routing loop errors.
> > |
> > | Thanks for your assistance
> >
> >
> > urr.  you mention it doesnt deliver mail to local
> > users.  so where does it deliver mail to?
>
> Mail is not delivered locally because it is acting
> as
> a relay server.  the mx records for both the abc.com
> and xyz.com domains point to my sendmail server.
> From
> there I am using /etc/mail/mailertable to relay the
> mail to 2 seperate servers (one server is for
> abc.com
> and the other is for xyz.com).
>
> >from your description, mail will *have* to
> > be delivered locally as you have both domains
> > pointed to that one
> > server...so it wouldnt make sense to have a
> > virtusertable unless you
> > wanted to deliver the mail somewhere else, hence
> the
> > loop errors.
> >
> > it might be better to use /etc/mail/domaintable
> for
> > what you are
> > doing, simple domain remapping.
>
> I am using webmin to administer my server.  When I
> clicked on the domaintable option, I received the
> following:  "Your sendmail configuration does not
> have
> the domain mapping (domaintable) feature enabled"
> Click here to eable it.  It took me to the sendmail
> m4
> and I do not see an option to enable the
> domaintable.
> Where can I enable this option?
>
> >
> > - --
> >
> > Marco Benton - BOFH, BSMFH
> > Network Consultant
>
>
Thanks for info, the problem was the local-host-names,
I seemed to have everything setup except for that. I
added the xyz.com domain and the virtusertable worked
as described.  Thanks again for all of the suggestions.

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