I've got sendmail running on mydomain.com. I want to be able to send an email to user@myomain.com, but it's bouncing because sendmail doesn't want to allow me to send to the same domain as it lives on. How do I get around this?

6/3/2008 3:57:02 PM

Maybe it isn't working because you are using 'user@myomain.com'

6/3/2008 4:23:07 PM

haha i JUST had this happen. you have to set the domain in sendmail to something different than the main domain ... and there is a config somewhere in your mail daemon that has setup accounts for mydomain.com when you shouldn't have that setup at all.


i just had this happen, but was able to fix it through a control panel and just remove the domain from receiving email ...

6/3/2008 4:48:16 PM

^^ obviously those are examples, and i've checked to make sure the spellings are correct in the real scenario.

it turns out the problem was not that it wasn't letting me send the mail, but that it was trying to find the local user "user", which didn't exist - even though the actual email address does exist and is managed on another server.

so i did a quick fix and just used another email address. i hate email.

6/3/2008 6:22:21 PM

oh so you've got your mx records pointing to a different server?

well what did you think was going to happen, lol

6/3/2008 6:31:38 PM

hey, i never claimed to be a sendmail guru

when it comes to email, all i want to have to do with it is click the compose, send, reply, and delete buttons.

6/3/2008 7:10:08 PM