Mail not being delivered externally

[gertjuhh]

Hi,

We've just setup an Ubuntu server as our main web server.
The site's domain, say mydomain.com, has its DNS hosted elsewhere.
A records are pointed to the IP address of the new server, so far so good.
Email is however handled elsewhere.
Sending mail to _anything but_ mydomain.com works fine.
However when i try to send mail to me@mydomain.com the mail ends in /var/mail/me

Any idea's on how to deliver the mail externally?

Using Ubuntu 9.10 with sendmail

Thanks in advance!

[gertjuhh]

*bump*
Any help would be appreciated!

[gertjuhh]

Still haven't been able to solve this problem.
Will gladly switch to another mail server if that will solve the problem.
All we need it for is sending out mail.

[Bachstelze]

Your server probably thinks it is the final destination for mail sent to example.com, you need to remove that in your config. Post the output of the command

hostname

as well as the contents of /etc/mail/local-host-names.

[gertjuhh]

Hostname in the case would be the domain without the extension.
/etc/mail/local-host-names only contains localhost, i already checked this.
/etc/hosts also only contains localhost

[Bachstelze]

Hostname in the case would be the domain with the extension.
Being 'rgbsystems'

So you mean the hostname command returns rgbsystems.nl? If it does, that's your problem. You must give your machine a hostname in that domain (something.rgbsystems.nl).

[koenn]

I agree with Bachstelze about your mail server thinking it's final destination for mydomain.com

I don't know how to configure sendmail to fix this.
Debian uses exim4, which would probably work with Ubuntu as well.
If you decide to use this, you can run

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

to set it up and (re-)configure it. Your best bet would be "no local delivery" and/or "domains this system should accept mail for:"(leave blank, or put only the server's FQDN)



edit:
didn't see Bachstelze post.
you probably better try his suggestions first.

[gertjuhh]

So you mean the hostname command returns rgbsystems.nl? If it does, that's your problem. You must give your machine a hostname in that domain (something.rgbsystems.nl).

Sorry i made a typo there...
The exact output of the hostname command is 'rgbsystems' being the domain name without the extension.

That being said, do i still need to change the server's hostname to something.rgbsystems.nl ?

Thanks for the help thus far, much appreciated!

[noway2]

I am afraid that I can't offer more help, but take a look at the following: http://www.sendmail.org/sm-X/release.html#SMXREADME

Sendmail X is the local delivery agent. About page 40 there is a section on using sendmail for sending mail only.

I think your problem comes down to the fact that it thinks it is supposed to be the recipient for your domain and then it tries to use the local delivery agent. Instead you don't want it to use local delivery and instead to forward or relay to another SMTP.

[gertjuhh]

'Solved' my problem for now.
Using PHPMailer with an SMTP config to our mail server.
Will look into setting a mail server when i get some more spare time.
Thanks for the help