[BlueOnyx:00584] Re: Strange BQ Sendmail behavior - fixed in BO?

[Jeff Jones]

Thanks Lucas,

Do you know how I might force the constructors to run? That way I  
could follow your steps and see if the access file is updated.

It does seem to make sense (sort of!)

Cheers,

Jeff

On 19 Feb 2009, at 21:14, Lucas Peyatt - Ohio Web Hosting &  
Development wrote:

> 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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