Sendmail Alias Problem

[Michael Christian]

Looks like a relay issue.  You can fix the confige file or try:

You might try adding an entry to /etc/mail/virtualusertable and see if that
corrects it.

root at whateverdomain             me at company.com

On 1/17/06, John Allan (PTC) <John.Allan at paccar.com> wrote:
>
> I have 6 workstations running RHE4.0. All of them have the same
> /etc/aliases file. I have aliased root to my corporate email address
> (root: me at company.com). On 5 of the 6 workstations any mail going to
> root gets forwarded correctly. On one workstation it doesn't and I can't
> figure out why. I also have the same /etc/mail/sendmail.cf files on all
> workstations and have run the newaliases command and restarted sendmail
> many time trying to troubleshoot this problem. If you look in the
> /var/log/maillog file on a system that works you get this information:
>
> Jan 16 14:37:33 turmoil sendmail[7975]: k0GMbXYu007975: to=root,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=30044, relay=[ 127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (k0GMbXV9007976 Message accepted for delivery)
> Jan 16 14:37:33 turmoil sendmail[7977]: k0GMbXV9007976:
> to= me at company.com, ctladdr=<root at ptcmtvzu3pph462.techcenter.company.com>
> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30699,
> relay=webmail.company.com. [160.60.5.182], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK -
> Data received)
>
> On the system that doesn't work you get this information:
>
> Jan 16 14:38:57 chaos sendmail[20941]: k0GMcvub020941: to=root,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
> pri=30043, relay=[127.0.0.1] [ 127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (k0GMcvJd020942 Message accepted for delivery)
> Jan 16 14:38:57 chaos sendmail[20944]: k0GMcvJd020942:
> to=<root at chaos.techcenter.company.com >, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=relay, pri=120373, relay=webmail.company.com. [160.60.5.182],
> dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK - Data received)
>
> Got any ideas what's causing this problem?
>
>
> John Allan
>
>
>
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