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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:07:28 +0100
From:      "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>
To:        John Straiton <jks@clickcom.com>
Cc:        "'Ken Bolingbroke'" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OT: Sendmail issues
Message-ID:  <3C3F7030.9080309@rambo.simx.org>
References:  <008301c19aed$ebcd1fe0$4116c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>

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John Straiton wrote:

>I want to open by saying that I really appreciate you taking the time to
>respond to me and that I really respect your opinion of "fix it, don't
>hack it". Please, please don't take this the wrong way because I agree
>with you in spirit, but have to disagree by corporate mentality, let me
>explain:
>
>>If you're saying that the mail for those domains are hosted 
>>elsewhere, then all you do is skip them, because you won't be 
>>getting those "mail loops back to self" errors with those 
>>domains anyway.
>>If a given domain isn't intended to have mail delivered for 
>>it, it shouldn't have an MX record.  That's why an error 
>>message is generated. You're seeking for a hack to silence 
>>the error message rather than correcting the misconfiguration.
>>Finding a hack as an alternative to 
>>fixing the problem usually just gives you something else that 
>>is going to break down the line.
>>
>
>Yes, that's what I'm looking for- a hack.
>
[snip]

Ok, if I understand this correctly, the only problem is that all those 
errors fills your inbox, making it difficult to find the mails that 
contains "real" error or complaints?
A real ugly hack would be to use some kind of message filtering in your 
mail client.
All mails containing the text "MX points back to" or similar are moved 
to a folder, ie "inbox/MX_bouncers".
That way, you can keep your MX records, they wont fill your inbox, and 
in case you want to read them, you will still have them.
I know its a ugly solution, but you wanted a hack.. :)

--
R



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