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Sendmail on webserver.mydomain.com is sending all emails properly except email addressed to [email protected].

mydomain.com's mail is not handled locally and mx records are configured to point to the appropriate mailserver. But mail sent from sendmail seems to be relayed off the local server instead of the mailserver where the mx records point.

I removed mydomain.com from /etc/mail/local-host-names and restarted sendmail but to no avail. The mail log shows sendmail connecting to the local relay 127.0.0.1 and returning a "User unknown" message.

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  • For the record, I never solved this but switched to postfix as my MTA and have had no such problem with since. I'm still interested in a solution using sendmail.
    – Eaten by a Grue
    Commented Mar 12, 2014 at 0:15
  • Is mydomain.com on lists of local email domains provided by the commands below? echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt , echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt -O DontProbeInterfaces=Trues Is it "this host email name"? echo '$j' | sendmail -bt
    – AnFi onet.eu
    Commented Mar 12, 2014 at 9:28
  • both of those commands return the error sendmail: fatal: unsupported: -bt
    – Eaten by a Grue
    Commented Mar 13, 2014 at 15:36
  • Could you name MTA package you use? [ Exim/postfix/...] It does not to be sendmail. The other packages "provide sendmail look alike" to allow email sending using sendmail command.
    – AnFi onet.eu
    Commented Mar 13, 2014 at 17:38
  • yes as i said in the first comment i switched to postfix once i couldn't get sendmail to work.
    – Eaten by a Grue
    Commented Mar 14, 2014 at 18:37

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