sendmail and MX records when mail server is not on web host

Question

This is a problem I\'m sure is easy to fix, but I\'ve been banging my head on it all day.

I\'m developing a new web site for a client. The web site resides at (this

Answer 1

I think the problem is that sendmail (your process) is talking to the local sendmail daemon. The local sendmail daemon thinks that because it is website.com, it should know how to deliver the email. Unfortunately, the actual address in the to field does not exist on the web server and thus it dumps it in the "catchall" mail box. You should talk to your ISP and have them update their sendmail configuration so that mail addressed to ...@website.com gets forward to the mail exchanger instead of being handled locally.