[K12OSN] OT but SME question

Jay Pfaffman pfaffman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 03:55:35 UTC 2004


You might also need to edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and uncomment the
line that makes your mail server listen only to localhost and then
type "make."


On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:34:53 -0600, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:53, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> > Hello,  We have installed an SME-Server with the mail built in, but we can't
> > get the darn dns working properly.  We can send mail locally, or out, but
> > can't send from outside mail addresses to the SME domain addresses.  Does
> > anyone use webmin for dns?   I'm using webmin for admining the dns box, and
> > I think that this is what is wrong...
> 
> You need to add 'virtual domains' on the SME server for all of the
> domains that it should accept mail for.  It wants to be the primary
> DNS server for the name you assign to the box and doesn't cooperate
> with anything else, so I usually assign the main machine name in a
> subdomain (sme.sme.main.com instead of sme.main.com), then add
> virtual domains for the real top-level domain(s).  That way it doesn't
> confuse the other machines by acting as your main primary DNS but
> will still accept mail when your real DNS server says it is the MX
> for the domain.
> 
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
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Jay Pfaffman                           <pfaffman at utk.edu>
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