Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!rex!ames!uhccux!mpg.phys.hawaii.edu!tony From: tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: accepting mail for an alias hostname Message-ID: <13228@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 28 May 91 11:38:41 GMT Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Lines: 29 The hostname for our system just changed and I would like it to accept mail for both the old and new hostnames during a transition period. I thought this was simply a matter of putting the following rule into sendmail.cf: R$*oldname$* $1newname$2 I put this into several rulesets and it didn't really work except for local mail addressed to the old hostname. When a remote host makes a connection to our system I get an error message generated to postmaster: <<< 553 mpg.phys.hawaii.edu host name configuration error 554 ... Service unavailable So I know the remote machine is making the SMTP connection but the local system is rejecting the mail. I'm running SUN's sendmail with SunOS 4.0.3. Anyone got any clues for me on making this work? Perhaps I'm just putting the rule into the wrong ruleset? Please respond here rather than by e-mail as it will be a while before our local nameservers are updated with the new hostname. Thanks! -- Antonio Querubin tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu / ah6bw@uhm.ampr.org / querubin@uhunix.bitnet