"Sharon F." wrote:
> my main domain is family-connection.net which is the domain where
> the mailing list resides. familyc is the group name on my server
> (which is virtually hosted).
If by "virtually hosted", you mean it's on the same system as
family-connection.net, then perhaps you should start thinking a bit
differently...
There's no such thing as a virtual site to sendmail or to majordomo.
Think of virtual sites only in the context of apache and you're a long
way towards understanding your problem.
> franklinlibrary is the name of the list and it runs from family-
>connection.net which is the main domain. It's tough to say in a
> virtual environment, but I'd call that local since the error
> message is from familyc the user group for family-connection.net.
Anything on the same computer is local.
> tfcemail.net is a virtual host of family-connection.net. It has
> an altered MX record
Again, "altered" is probably not a good term. "MX" means
mail-exchanger, and the purpose of an MX record is to let the rest of
the world know where to send email. For example:
tfcemail.net. IN MX 10 everyone.net.
isn't "altered" in any way, it's just a normal MX record so the world
will know that to send mail to (for example) cf@tfcemail.net, it must
first connect to the server named "everyone.net" (and I suppose it isn't
too much of a digression to point out that while everyone.net will work
as a target for an MX record, it really isn't a reasonable MX record
target, since it doesn't contain a server name; only a domain name).
> to point to everyone.net servers for email processing.
> tfcemail.net is only used for the free email service and
> shouldn't share any other email functions with family-
> connection.net (though it might be if I've made an error in
> configuration). In other words.. tfcemail.net is not
> supposed to touch ANY email functions on family-connection.net
> (or familyc). It should operate "stand alone" in respect to email.
Are you saying that everyone.net is on a different machine? If so, then
it's NOT local.
> I checked sendmail.cw and tfcemail.net is in the list. Maybe it
> shouldn't be? I can't think of any function I run, no scripts,
> or anything else, that wouldn't utilize sendmail at tfcemail.net.
> If it's not in sendmail maybe majordomo won't treat it as local
> and it'll work fine.
Let's look at a small portion of my /etc/sendmail.cw file for a moment:
> Cwlocalhost
> # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
> Fw/etc/sendmail.cw
This tells us that /etc/sendmail.cw is a list of hostnames for which the
local machine receives email. If everyone.net is on a different
machine, then tfcemail.net should NOT be in /etc/sendmail.cw.
So what's happening is:
Sendmail knows the contents of /etc/sendmail.cw, and "thinks" it should
keep mail for tfcemail.net on the local machine. It never does an MX
record, so it never knows to send the mail on to everyone.net. It just
tries local delivery.
And since the local system has neither a mailbox for, nor an alias for,
cf@tcemail.net, it sends back an error message.
> Did I answer all the questions?
Yes, and I hope I've given you an understandable answer <smile>.
Jeff
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