From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 17:41:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA12970 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA12950 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:41:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12734; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:40:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id TAA08691; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:40:24 -0500 Message-ID: <19970911194023.47189@right.PCS> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:40:23 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Dave Babler Cc: Dan Busarow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Sendmail/DNS References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Dave Babler on Sep 09, 1997 at 04:18:55PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sep 09, 1997 at 04:18:55PM -0700, Dave Babler wrote: > 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"). What about trying ``O TryNullMXList'' (or ``Ow'' for older sendmails) in the sendmail.cf file on rigel? This should cause rigel to notice that it is the 'best' MX exchange for altair, so it will then send directly to altair, bypassing the MX lookup. (you might need to make rigel's MX = 5, and altair's MX = 10). -- Jonathan