Re: Just started seeing "stat=Local configuration error" in maillog

In article <pan.2005.12.28.19.49.02.68240@xxxxxxxx> Dan M <dan@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> A few of many possible explanations:
>> * reverse DNS has changed but you configuiration used auto-detection
>> * (our customer).orh has screwed configuration of the DNS domain
>>
>> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.5
>> Q4.5 -- How can I solve "MX list for hostname points back to hostname"
>> and "config error: mail loops back to myself" messages?
>
>Here's where I'm still confused: I'm trying to send to
>"comments@(ourcustomer).org". I've got an entry in /etc/mail/virtusertable
>that reads:
>comments@(ourcustomer).org comments@(anothercustomer).org
>
>(ourcustomer.org) has an MX record pointing to my mail server.
>(anothercustomer).org has an MX record pointing to their mail server, on a
>completely separate network. The message warning that the MX record points
>back to my mail server is screwing with my head - of course the MX for
>(ourcustomer).org points to my mail server, that's how the e-mail got
>there in the first place!

Well, sendmail has no way of knowing how it got there, but the point is
that if you are the primary MX for a domain, your config should specify
how mail for that domain should be processed - read the first section
after "How can I solve this problem?" in the FAQ entry again...

> Shouldn't the entry in virtusertable cause
>sendmail to lookup the mx record for (anothercustomer).org?

It never gets there - it doesn't even look in the virtusertable, since
nothing in your config says that ourcustomer.org should be looked up
there.

--Per Hedeland
per@xxxxxxxxxxxx
.

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