We have our webserver and a seperate server to handle our mail. However since the domain of our webserver is the same when we try to send mail (through a php program or from the command line) from our webserver it tries to deliver it locally rather than to our mail server. I have tried defining FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') but that hasn't seemed to have any effect. Maybe I haven't compiled the sendmail.mc correctly... Anyway are there any ideas on getting this mail to relay/forward to the mailserver?

I use webmin (www.webmin.com) to configure and manage Sendmail. There is a section that says ignore mx record. Hope that helps.

After several days of trying to debug this I still do not know why it still sends the mail locally instead of sending it to our mail server to deliver... Any other ideas?

kloppster

This is just a wild guess but have you set the IP of your webserver to relay in
/etc/mail/access of your mailserver

If you modify this file you must run 'make' in the mail directory to generate
/etc/mail/access.db

Obviously restart Sendmail

This is my file these are the IP's of all my local machines

# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
192.168.0.4 RELAY
192.168.0.2 RELAY
192.168.0.7 RELAY
192.168.0.3 RELAY

Probably way off the mark

Pete