From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 15 9: 7:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0513737B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0FH6rS45220; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:06:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.1/8.11.0) with SMTP id f0FH6am06522; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:06:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <009d01c07f15$907e2200$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Reply-To: "Leif Neland" From: "Leif Neland" To: "Troy Settle" , References: Subject: Re: sendmail queue Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:06:44 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy Settle" To: Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:07 PM Subject: RE: sendmail queue > > Clarification please. I use qmail myself, but was recently asked about this > functionality in sendmail. > > It is/was my understanding that (assuming all sendmail): > > - all MX hosts need to have the domain listed in the access.db > to allow relaying > > - primary MX has domain in sendmail.cw > > - if a secondary MX recieves a message, it attempts to deliver > to primary/better MX or queues the message until it can > complete delivery > > - if the mail needs to go to a mail server that is /not/ the > primary MX, then on each MX you would create an entry in the > mailertable: > > domain.com smtp:real-mail-server.domain.com > > Is this correct? > I belive you are 100% correct. A little thing, which usually doesn't matter: In mailertable, put square brackets around: domain.com smtp:[real-mail-server.domain.com] to avoid looking up MX record for real-mail-server.domain.com Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message