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From: gord@cs.UAlberta.CA (Gord Urquhart)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Local Configuration Error
Keywords: sendmail, mx, bind
Message-ID: <gord.653697425@menaik>
Date: 18 Sep 90 22:37:05 GMT
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  I am running sendmail 5.61 in conjunction with Bind. Everything works 
except for machines that are MX'ed to the local host. If there are 2 MX 
records for a host with the prefered one being the local host then in 
domain.c sendmail trips over a check that says he should have already 
recognized that this was a local delivery - specifically:

     if (seenlocal && prefer[i] >= localpref) {
            /*
             * truncate higher pref part of list; if we're
             * the best choice left, we should have realized
             * awhile ago that this was a local delivery.
             */
            if (i == 0) {
                *rcode = EX_CONFIG;
                return(-1);
            }

 So after pretending my head is a masonary hammer for a couple of days,
how do I set up my config file to recognize these hosts as local and still
use the TCP mailer.

gord u.

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Gord Urquhart				gord@atropos.ucs.ualberta.ca 
Technical Support 
University Computing Systems
University of Alberta