From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 00:22:31 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 A0D3516A415 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FFF43D55 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:22:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k9J0M8oN020601 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:22:11 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9J0MiNB002083; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:22:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9J0MivG002082; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:22:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:22:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20061019002244.GA1877@gothmog.pc> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.574, required 5, AWL -0.18, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:22:31 -0000 On 2006-10-18 17:14, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline 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? :)