[CentOS] Need a sendmail help mail list
Christopher Chan
christopher at ias.com.hk
Thu Dec 6 04:41:43 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>> I have a sendmail question.
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to a list appropriate to get some sendmail.mc help?
>>>
>> ----
>> try here first
>
> My fax server (fax.foo.com) is suppose to receive mail to:
> user at ext.fax.foo.com and execute:
>
> /usr/bin/faxmail -d user at ext
>
> I found the following items to add to sendmail.mc:
>
> define(`FAX_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/faxmail')dnl
> define(`FAX_MAILER_ARGS',`faxmail -d -n -p 12pt $u@$h $f')dnl
> MAILER(`fax')dnl
>
>
> I have set up DNS with a pseudo domain:
>
> sip.foo.com. IN A 192.168.1.100
> fax.foo.com. IN A 192.168.1.100
> *.fax.foo.com. IN MX 10 fax.foo.com
>
>
>
> nslookup shows this to work, and in fact my POP mail server does try to
> send mail addessed:
>
> to: joe at 222.fax.foo.com
>
> To fax.foo.com, that gets sent back to me with the error information:
>
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <joe at 222.fax.foo.com>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 5.0.0 MX list for 222.fax.foo.com. points back to sip.foo.com
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
>
> sendmail is NOT suppose to try to relay; it is suppose to accept this
> for local delivery, and not do a DNS lookup on 222.fax.foo.com....
>
> So obviously I need more sendmail help. Then I will have to set it up
> via webmin....
>
The ruleset in the cf file that calls the fax mailer expects the domain
portion to be ext.fax and not ext.fax.foo.com. The rule looks for
anything .FAX.
# resolve fake top level domains by forwarding to other hosts
R$+ < @ $+ .FAX. > $#fax $@ $2 $: $1 user at host.FAX
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