Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:22:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061019002244.GA1877@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org>
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On 2006-10-18 17:14, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > > [[ ... ]] > > > > 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.... > > > > By setting the "MX" records for `thought.org' up so that the one with > > the lowest value of them all points to that specific server. > > > > This should be configured in the name-server which hosts the DNS zone > > for `thought.org'. > > This would work [or ought to!]; right now, all my mail echange > entries are equi-valued at 50. But this seems like a back door > way of dealing with sendmail. I'm the first to admit that it's a > less tha optimal suite, obscure beyond words, (etc). But I'd > like to understand how to resolve this problem with senmail.... Sendmail (or any other MTA, for that matter) should really *trust* the DNS admin to properly configure MX records. There's nothing wrong with relying on MX records which, for example, point to: thought.org. IN MX 10 mx1.thought.org. thought.org. IN MX 20 mx2.thought.org. If I understood what you are trying to do, then a nice set of MX priorities *does* what you want. Why would you want to mess with mailertables? :)
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