Re: sendmail as a secondary MX

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janet Sullivan wrote:

>
*SNIP*

> properly.  The only difference I see off the bat is that the new domain 
> isn't in reverse DNS for any of the IP addresses on the box.
>
> Could it be that sendmail is seeing the domain names in rDNS for the 
> servers IPs, and deciding that they are local, even if they are set in 
> the relay-domains file?

Exim could, either in a local DNS /rDNS or /etc/hosts - and at base it 
is 'drop in' for Sendmail.

I think you found the cause.

Bill