From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 16:19:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA04047 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (dbabler@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA04014 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA16151; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:18:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Sendmail/DNS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Dave Babler wrote: > > > orionsys.com. IN MX 10 rigel.orionsys.com. > > > rigel.orionsys.com. IN MX 10 rigel.orionsys.com. > > > altair.orionsys.com. IN MX 10 altair.orionsys.com. > > ^^^^^^ > > But doesn't this make anything addressed to altair go directly -TO- > > altair immediately? > > Yes it does, if you want rigel to send mail to altair it has to > be this way. (you could turn DNS off on rigel and play lots of > games to avoid the MX to altair but it would be painful). > > Just don't allow out going mail to include "altair" in the address. > Make sure all outgoing mail shows as coming from user@orionsys.com > and that Reply-To: is set the same. > > Bounces and such will go directly to altair, but they're supposed to > anyway. Normal mail will go through rigel. It looks like I'm hosed then, host altair is just for testing. The REAL desired operation is: mail to orionsys.com -> rigel -> bbs.orionsys.com mail to bbs.orionsys.com -> rigel -> bbs.orionsys.com mail to rigel.orionsys.com -> rigel mail to altair.orionsys.com -> rigel -> altair... I just didn't want to experiment with a live system and lose everybody's email. The filtering/relay is only intended for inbound mail, each host can send directly and if contacted by name instead of using MX records, each host would accept mail. I've tried class "w" (and not), using virtusertable (and not), using mailertable (and not) and nothing delivers mail, it just bounces with various error messages to the sender or complains of the MX loop (without the class "w"). -Dave