On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:50:03PM +0000, mgmcomm @hotmail.com wrote: > When a cron or periodic task creates an email to say root...it gets mailed > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which results in an > error message
That's by design, believe it or not. 'root' is a member of class E --
Exposed Users -- whoese e-mail addresses won't be rewritten by
genericstable processing or the like.
> Jan 7 03:03:01 butters sm-mta[1511]: i07331me001498: SYSERR(root):
> butters.kibserv.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
On your mail host, you need to add the names of all of the hosts you
provide mail service for to the /etc/mail/local-host-names file, one
per line.
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> kibserv.org. 1H IN MX 10 mail.kibserv.org.
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mail.kibserv.org. 1H IN CNAME stan.kibserv.org.
> stan.kibserv.org. 1H IN A 10.0.0.8
Not relevant to your current problem, but you've got your MX pointed
to a CNAME. That's bad karma and not permitted by the DNS standards.
You should make mail.kibserv.org into an A record like so:
mail.kibserv.org. 1H IN A 10.0.0.8
stan.kibserv.org. 1H IN A 10.0.0.8
and similarly, provide PTR records for both names:
$ORIGIN 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
8 1H IN PTR mail.kibserv.org.
PTR stan.kibserv.org.
Cheers,
Matthew
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