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Operating Systems SCO Sendmail delivers mail to local user if it exists instead of passing it to the smart relay Post 302753969 by checkpro on Wednesday 9th of January 2013 08:32:10 PM
Old 01-09-2013
Sendmail delivers mail to local user if it exists instead of passing it to the smart relay

Environment: SCO Unix Openserver 6
Sendmail ver: 8.11.3

I just put this server online replacing it's old counterpart, same OS on new machine. There are many different servers on this domain, windowssrv.thisdomain.com, oldunix.thisdomain.com, and the new newunix.thisdomain.com just to name a few. The problem is when we generate emails bound for fred@thisdomain.com, if fred is setup as a user on newunix.thisdomain.com, sendmail delivers the message to the his local mailbox in /var/spool/mail/fred. The old server didn't do this. I've compared the sendmail.cf files on oldunix and newunix and they are identical right down to the '"Smart" relay host' setting and except for the machine names. I've also looked at the /etc/resolv.conf files, which are also identical. How to I tell sendmail NOT to deliver to the local mailbox if it exists?
 

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Sendmail::Milter(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Sendmail::Milter(3pm)

NAME
Sendmail::Milter - compatibility interface for Sendmail::PMilter SYNOPSIS
use Sendmail::Milter; Sendmail::Milter::auto_setconn(NAME); Sendmail::Milter::register(NAME, { CALLBACKS }, FLAGS); Sendmail::Milter::main(); DESCRIPTION
This is a compatibility interface which emulates the "standard" Sendmail::Milter API. FUNCTIONS
The following functions are available in this module. Unlike "Sendmail::PMilter", this interface involves a single, global instance of milter data, so these functions are called without an object reference. For each function, see the description of its object-based counterpart in Sendmail::PMilter. Sendmail::Milter::auto_getconn(NAME[, CONFIG]) Sendmail::Milter::auto_setconn(NAME[, CONFIG]) Sendmail::Milter::main([MAXCHILDREN[, MAXREQ]]) Sendmail::Milter::register(NAME, CALLBACKS[, FLAGS]) Sendmail::Milter::setconn(DESC) One extension function is provided by this implementation. Sendmail::Milter::get_milter() Returns the "Sendmail::PMilter" instance underlying this emulation layer. This allows mostly-unmodified milter scripts to set PMilter extensions (such as dispatcher and sendmail.cf values). It is recommended, however, that new code use the object instance methods described in Sendmail::PMilter. EXPORTS
In order to preserve compatibility with the standard "Sendmail::Milter" interface, all SMFI* constants described in Sendmail::PMilter are exported into the caller's namespace by default. (Note that "Sendmail::PMilter" itself does not export these symbols by default.) perl v5.10.1 2011-02-12 Sendmail::Milter(3pm)
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