equating domain names

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:30:57PM -0500, Wayne wrote:
> Our company just went through a name change. I want to maintain the previous
> domain name & also use the new one.
> I have DNS running on a firewall & on an internal host.  Accessing our
> website via either domain name works fine, but I haven't figured out how to
> get the email working.
> qmail is running on the firewall & sendmail is running on the internal host.
> We simply added another primary line to the /var/named.boot on the firewall
> & copied the db.hosts file to db.newdomainname.
> When I send mail to user at newdomainname I get this  message from qmail:
> 
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at firewall.cae-plus.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> 
> <waynes at cynergysd.com>:
> Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
> it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)
> 
> I tried the same thing on the other DNS host, but that didn't work.
> Any help would really be appreciated.

Nothing to do with either DNS in general or BIND in particular.

I would look in the control/locals file, whatever that is, to see
whether you should put both domain names in there.  I suspect so.

You will get your best answer from a 'qmail' mailing list or newsgroup.
I would use something simpler, like 'smap/smapd' or 'smtpd', on the
firewall.

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