From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 21:13:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE0716A403 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:13:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DCC43D5A for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:13:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9ILCx1F001643 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9ILCx0B001642 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:58 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: tao.thought.org is back..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:13:10 -0000 This is only for sendmail *wizards* out there. It took me two hours of messing round with the /etc/mail/* files on ns1|sage before I just gave up. After I rebooted both servers to get mail to default to tao. After my first "fatal trap" on 01 Sept, I changed (uncommented) my ^Cw tao.thought.org line on sage's sendmail.cf to get mail going to sage rather than tao. I do realize that this Cw line means: route all mail for "tao" to localhost, which here was sage. With this Cw commented out, mail for kline@thought.org was routed to tao. Uncommented, and mail stayed in sage.thought.org. My one question is given that mail defaults to my ns1.thought.org, HOW can I get it to go to (say) zen.thought.org, or to tao.thought.org? or to ethos.thought.org? OR what re-initialization do I have to do? other than a shutdown -r now?? I thought I had this down cold, but nope..... gary PS: Mail from my magnesium.net account mailed explicitedly to kline@sage.thought.org, kline@ethos.thought.org, kline@zen.thought.org, or kline@tao.thought.org---in other words, using the FQDN-- gets to which ever server. But how do I make "kline@thought.org" reach a specific server?? PS: Apologizes if this seems like an obscure question; it IS.... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix