sendmail / multiple domains question

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Sundar wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to host multiple domains on my mail server. So, I updated 
> virtusertable, generics-domains, genericstable. I am able to send and 
> recive from olduser@1stdomain.com. But I am only able to receive mail 
> from newuser@2nddomain.com, not send from the account.
> 

My setup also has local-host-names. The error below seems to indicate that 
the machine can't resolve 2nddomain.com. Did you place an entry in the DNS 
tables on the machine trying to send mail for 2nddomain.com? If it doesn't 
run DNS set it in /etc/hosts.



>  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- 
>     (reason: 501 5.1.8 <newuser@2nddomain.com>... Domain of sender address newuser@2nddomain.com does not exist)
> 
> 
> 
> Following are the files I modified.
> 2nddomain is the domain I am trying to add
> 
> Virtusertable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> newuser@1stdomain.com     error:nouser send mail to new@2nddomain.com
> newuser@2nddomain.com       newuser
> olduser@2nddomain.com      error:nouser user not found
> olduser@istdomain.com    olduser
> 
> generics-domains(copied local-host-names)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1stdomain.com
> 2nddomain.com
> 
> genericstable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> newuser    newuser@2nddomain.com
> olduser    olduser@istdomain.com
> 
> 
> Sundar
> 
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