From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 23 5:26: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089BE15514 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 05:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08287; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:25:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02997; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:31:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909231231.NAA02997@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, jon@caamora.com.au, domi@saargate.de, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail: Receive mails for every subdomain In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:28:27 +0200." <13078.938068107@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:31:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Should be... if your MX is (say) mx.domain.com try something like > > > > > > > > .domain.com smtp:[mx.domain.com] > > > > > > > > in your mailer table and > > > > > > > > *.domain.com. IN MX 0 mx.domain.com. > > > > > > > > in your DNS. See src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README for details. > > > > > > i've been wondering about this sort of entry in the dns table > > > fro some time. i've asked several people about the posibilities > > > and have been told that this particular habit is frowned upon > > > and should be avoided. > ... > > Heh, well I'm certainly the last person to invite to this sort of > > argument :-] I've read the first 200 pages of the second edition > > O'Reilly Sendmail book and the rest of my knowledge in this area > > comes from trying things out and making things up :*) > > > > I don't see that wildcard MXs are really evil. The argument is > > probably that people shouldn't be sending to arbitrary machines > > unless your outgoing mail is misconfigured (dodgy from address). > > No. Wildcard MXs really are evil, because they *don't work the way > you expect*. [.....] Well, they work the way *I* expect :-) I just want to be able to accept mail that's incorrectly destined for *.lan.Awfulhak.org - an internal domain. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message