[BlueOnyx:00583] Re: Strange BQ Sendmail behavior - fixed in BO?

[Lucas Peyatt - Ohio Web Hosting & Development]

The disable mail box makes sendmail reject the mail for the domain. I asked 
Brian about this a while back, the relay mail setting makes sendmail relay that 
mail outside of the server versus handling it locally. Just make sure your MX 
as viewed from the server does not point back to its self, otherwise you will 
have a excessive recursion error. When checking the disable mail box, then 
changing the setting in the file you are fighting against cce. And the changes 
will most likely get overwritten next time the constructors are ran.

1) uncheck disable mail box

2) add foo.com to "relay mail from .." in the advanced email settings GUI

3) make sure DNS MX for foo.com does not point to the BQ/BO server

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:54:35 +0000, Steve Howes wrote
> You missed the point entirely. He wants to have a site, that does not  
> have mail processed locally at all (disable makes it proccessed as  
> 'user unknown' rather than like any other email originating locally).  
> He just set it to relay as a 'quick fix'. Read the post agaiin.
> 
> On 19 Feb 2009, at 20:50, Lucas Peyatt - Ohio Web Hosting &  
> Development wrote:
> 
> > The setting is "disable email for domain" not relay to another  
> > location. You may have better luck with
> > the relay mail for domains setting in the system email area, I use  
> > it in a similar setup. just make sure
> > the dns on your server does not resolve the MX for foo.com to a  
> > local IP address.
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:27:43 +0000, Jeff Jones wrote
> >> Hi BO-mrades,
> >>
> >> Had a re-occurrence of an age old issue with one of my BQ boxes  
> >> today,
> >> and as I am soon to migrate this to BO - I was wondering if I'm going
> >> to be in for the same fun and games?
> >>
> >> But it's highly likely that something went screwy with BQ - I would
> >> just like to understand why it happened so I can perhaps avoid making
> >> the same mistake again.
> >>
> >> So I have a site - yes it's www.foo.com (you wonder why these guys  
> >> are
> >> still customers - they have so many problems) but it's just a  
> >> website,
> >>  there is no email locally. I checked the 'disable email for domain'
> >> checkbox on the site - so I think it's all cool.
> >>
> >> Next thing I know the boys at www.foo.com are on the phone, saying
> >> that email from the website (via php mail) is bouncing. I take a look
> >> in the mail logs, and sure enough I can see "contact at foo.com - user
> >> unkown". So I figure out that email from the site is trying to be
> >> delivered locally, even though I have checked that 'disable' email
> >> check box for the site.
> >>
> >> Struggling for a solution - I take a look in /etc/mail and look at  
> >> the
> >> access file. I see the following:
> >>
> >> ### Start Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com   ###
> >> www.foo.com             ERROR:5.1.1:550 User unknown
> >>
> >> ### END Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com  ###
> >>
> >> I then manually change it to this:
> >>
> >> ### Start Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com   ###
> >> www.foo.com             RELAY
> >>
> >> ### END Block Email for Virtual Site: www.foo.com  ###
> >>
> >> Restart sendmail - and hey presto - foo.com are getting email from  
> >> the
> >> site again.
> >>
> >> So I've found a work around - why am I bugging you all?
> >>
> >> I guess I'm worried it might happen again with BO - could it?
> >>
> >> How / why did this happen?
> >>
> >> It's a real drag!
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
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