[KLUG Members] question on Mail

[Peter Buxton]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:34:22PM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> we have an antivirus software with  e-mail alert facilities . The machine
> with antivirus software works as ftp server and is within an intranet. The
> smtp server is also within intranet. The e-mail alert is going to user
> account on the local system, but not going out. I tried specifying the smtp
> server ip in .pinerc and also tried creating .forward for the local user
> account to direct to the mailbox outside the local system (but within the
> network).

As far as I can tell, you have two boxes throwing email around. Your
antivirus box isn't getting the alerts out the door. Depending on the
MTA you're using, I would configure it to use your proper mail server as
a smarthost even for all local addresses. I know eximconfig has this
option, not sure about other emailers.

> Or do I need to create a MX record ( I have the IP address of the smtp
> server and its an intranet address)

MX records are only used for redirecting mail, or for listing multiple
servers for a given domain. They are not necessary as long as the domain
itself resolves to the proper address on the sending box.

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