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Recently took over a seemingly undocumented Sendmail 8.13.1 server, running on CentOS 4.7.

Basically need to figure out what they are trying to accomplish via the config files. One thing that I find odd is that many domains appear in both the relay-domains file as well as the local-host-names file. What might be the reason for such a configuration?

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It may make some sense without FEATURE(relay_hosts_only).

local-host-names file ($=w) does not automatically catch subdomains of the listed names.
relay-domains file ($=R) **without FEATURE(relay_hosts_only)**automatically catches also sub-domains.

Exact domains with names listed in both files will be treated as listed in local-host-names but their sub-domains will be treated as listed in relay-domains.

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  • It appears that FEATURE(relay_hosts_only) is not being used. It's not listed in the sendmail.mc and sendmail.cf contains "$* $=R" entries as opposed to "$=R" entries. But I don't get what you're saying - what would be the effect of the same entry in both files (outside of confusion)? It seems that it may make a difference with FEATURE(relay_hosts_only) as then the subdomains might get locally delivered instead of relayed but I'm not even sure that would happen.
    – user168261
    May 22, 2013 at 1:12
  • IF example.net is present in both files THEN* example.net is treated as listed in local-host-names (it is a local email domain) AND host51.example.net is treated as listed in relay-domains ( sendmail will relay from and to it) FI.
    – AnFi
    May 22, 2013 at 6:44

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