[CentOS] Need a sendmail help mail list

Thu Dec 6 04:59:18 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Christopher Chan wrote:
> 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....
>
> Via webmin?
>
> Try adding the below to mailertable and then running
> makemap hash mailertable < mailertable...
> '*.fax.foo.com fax:'
>

ALL RIGHT!!!!

Yes, in webmin, I edited the mailertable.... :)

Then I noticed an a Deliver to: Hylafax option in the Domain Routing 
screen. It produces the same entry.

But not delivering the proper arguments to faxmail as you indicate in 
your next message.