Sendmail configuration problems

[Chris Fury]

I run debian Linux and just happened to update my smail package
while I was installing dump. Figured what the heck, shouldn't hurt.
<blink> Now my configuration doesn't work.

Here's the setup:

o the mail machine is a gateway connecting our lan of UNIX
machines to the outside world.

o we can mail out just peachy.

o when I try to send email to a machine inside the LAN,
whether from outside or inside, it gives me an error.

Here's my configuration file for routing (I figure this is where
things are going wrong):

inet_addrs:
driver=gethostbyaddr, transport=smtp;
check_for_local, fail_if_error

inet_hosts:
driver=gethostbyname, transport=smtp;

smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
path=mail.vt.edu

I created this by running smailconfig and generating the basic file
set up for an internet machine. But because the DNS doesn't know
about the host names for our internal machines, I thought that
the gethostbyname driver would work. It did in the earlier version
of Smail. (3.2-3, I think)

We have the hosts listed in /etc/hosts.

When I try to send a message, I get:

06/04/1998 16:15:57: [m0yhgQV-0002CbC] Failed TO:fu...@alanis.aerosft.com
DIRECTOR:aliases ERROR:(ERR101) unknown host
06/04/1998 16:15:57: [m0yhgQV-0002CbC] mail moved to
/var/spool/smail/error/0yhgQV-0002CbC

could somebody please help me set this thing up. I'm at wits end.
:) gethostbyname should work, yes?

--
The truth is out there. I just forget where I put it.

[Gerd Streubel]

Chris Fury schrieb:

Hello Chris,

try to add the following lines to the match-inet-hosts-section:

domain = <yourdomain_name>,
only_local_domain

Please let me know if this works.

Regards
Gerd