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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:26:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject:   Re: using mailertables with uucp
Message-ID:  <199607230026.RAA05933@osprey.grizzly.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607222034.WAA05617@uriah.heep.sax.de> (message from J Wunsch on Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:34:07 %2B0200 (MET DST))

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>From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
..
>As Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
>> My idea was to the following to do incoming mail: have a mailertable
>> on mailhub that sez:
>> 
>> .tcja.nl        uucp-dom:dontpanic
>
>Should work fine.
>
>> bash# mailq
>>                 Mail Queue (1 request)
>> --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
>> VAA00735       12 Mon Jul 22 21:26 wilko
>>                  (Deferred: Name server: blurk.tcja.nl: host name lookup
>> failu)
>>                                    root@blurk.tcja.nl
>
>Common mistake. ;-)
>
>You still need an MX record for blurk.tcja.nl (pointing to
>mailhub.tcja.nl).  If you don't want this, you have to turn off
>name canonicalization.

If your running sendmail 8.7.5 (in 2.2 SNAPs), you can avoid this by creating
a file /etc/service.switch contining the line:

hosts	files






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