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