OT Taking care of mail errors and dnsreport.com

[Scott Silva]

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Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> My alias file seems to be /etc/aliases and it has:
> #
> #  Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from #  Mail, but
> WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail.
> #
> #       >>>>>>>>>>      The program "newaliases" must be run after
> #       >> NOTE >>      this file is updated for any changes to
> #       >>>>>>>>>>      show through to sendmail.
> #
>
> # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
> mailer-daemon:  postmaster
> postmaster:     root
>
> Then some other entries..............
> Then ...
>
> # mailman aliases
> mailman:        postmaster
> mailman-owner:  mailman
>
> newsadm:        news
> newsadmin:      news
> usenet:         news
> ftpadm:         ftp
> ftpadmin:       ftp
> ftp-adm:        ftp
> ftp-admin:      ftp
>
> # trap decode to catch security attacks
> decode:         root
>
> # Person who should get root's mail
> root:           administrator at woodmaclaw.com
>
> ---------- In my mailertable I have this....
> woodmaclaw.com          esmtp:[10.1.1.2]
> www.woodmaclaw.com      esmtp:[10.1.1.2]
>
> ---------- In my relay-domains I have this....
> Woodmaclaw.com
> www.woodmaclaw.com
>
> I am confused about naming the mailscanner.woodmaclaw.local to
> mailscanner.woodmaclaw.com.  Do I need to do this even though the computer
> is in my local domain?
>
> Seems like you have a similar setup as me?  I have...
> --- path of mail ----
> Internet
> My csu/dsu 68.xxx.xxx.xxx
> My router (linux smoothwall distro)
> My mailscanner machine (mailscanner.woodmaclaw.local) My MS Exchange machine
> (woodendc.woodmaclaw.local)
If the computer needs to get - receive from the internet, it needs a
real upper level domain, not local.

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