OT: Sendmail and Mailertable Problem

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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Hywel Burris wrote:

>    Hi,
>
> Sorry for the off topic request for help but i am sure that someone 
> here will have had the same problem.
>
> I am using mailertable to route mails to our sister companies after 
> scanning them. The problem is that sendmail refuses to use the value 
> in /etc/mail/mailertable even though it's in brackets and always uses 
> the dns.
>
> Config below
>
> [root at mail-2 mail]# cat sendmail.mc | grep mailer
> dnl FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
> FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
>
> I have tried both there not sure what the -o is for but it was in 
> there as default on RH9.
>
> the domain is in the relay-domains file
>
> [root at mail-2 mail]# cat mailertable | grep abcd
> .abcd.co.uk        smtp:[mail.abcd.co.uk]
>
> I have overcome this problem by adding a zone file and mx on bind for 
> the  host.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hywel
>
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Have you tried:

To:   abcd.co.uk   RELAY

You're not saying how exactly sendmail refuses, and if any errors come 
up. Have you run "makemap hash mailertable.db < mailertable"?

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