Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:19:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061019191921.GB11212@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20061019002244.GA1877@gothmog.pc> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> <20061019002244.GA1877@gothmog.pc>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:22:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 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? :) > I *really* don't hate myself, am not a masovhist, honest! But after ~14 years, it's time to understand sendmail. That's all. ---I mean without investing--(wasting)-- months tying to work thru all of ERic Allman's hack-arounds. :-) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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