Sendmail... issues?

[Rleonard]

from the looks of thing I don't think that this is actually a scalix problem but more of a configuration issues but I thought I'd throw it out here and see what you all thought.

Ok, in you companys need/fear we have opted to not completely roll scalix out on our domain meaing we had an existing pop email hosted by our ISP at our domain which for the time being we have opted to keep. so what I have done so far

Forwarded all the incomming email from our existing pop email accounts to your respective "scalix accounts"

then I setup email aliases matching the current pop email addresses inside of scalix. So, effectively every user now has two email addresses. IE Rob@origDom.com & Rob@TempDom.com and I raises the priority of the origDomain email address to the top in SAC so the email does look like it's being sent from origional domain. every thing here works great with one exception so far.

When someone tries to send a email to any address at AOL it says cannot simply cannot send. Now, I'm a babe in this realm but I am thinking that this is a security feature at aol since it's the only domain that I have found that I cannot send email too. (Please inform if incorrect) but I'm guessing that AOL sees that I'm am pretending to send from a domain that does not match the sending address domain....(?)

with that said I have searched the forums and found a post...
Quote:
*Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject:
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*The trick is to have sendmail configured properly.
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*Scalix doesn't "own" a domain. If there is a match in the SYSTEM directory, it will *accept the message otherwise it will pass the message on to sendmail. This is a logical *description rather than the actual process but it serves the purpose. *
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*Once the message is picked up by sendmail, the standard sendmail configuration *comes into place.
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*What would normally happen is that a DNS lookup will take place on the domain. If it's *the same domain as for the Scalix addresses, chances are that sendmail will detect a *routing loop and complain.
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*What you could do is to create a mailertable entry in /etc/mail/mailertable which looks *like this:Code:
*domain.com<TAB>esmtp:[other.server.com]
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*where <TAB> is an actual Tab character.
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*This tells sendmail that if a message is addressed to someone@domain.com, it should *use the ESMTP mailer to send it to other.server.com. The [ ] characters prevent any *kind of MX lookup taking place on domain.com. This makes sure that the message will *be delivered to that server.
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*The warning here is that other.server.com should be the final destination of *domain.com messages otherwise there may be a routing loop at this point.
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*To rebuild the mailertable index, run the commands:Code:
*cd /etc/mail
*make mailertable.db
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*You will then need to restart sendmail for the change to be picked up:Code:
*/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
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*Cheers
*
*Dave
*Endquote

I think thst this is my problem. but I have tried this to no avail. but just to clearify in the mailer table my entry should be: aol.com esmtp:[mail.aol.com]
or should it be aol.com esmtp:[mail.origionalDomain.com]
or am I reading this incorrectlly? should this be a fix to my issue?

Thank you all for your time.

Rob

[ScalixSupport]

It should read:

Code: Select all

aol.com<TAB>esmtp:[smart.host.com]

where smart.host.com is your ISP's relay that should be recognised by AOL as acceptable.

Cheers

Dave