Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:06:44 +0100 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> To: "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail queue Message-ID: <009d01c07f15$907e2200$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> References: <GIEHKBHPBGKJPNMBCOHFKEELCAAA.troy@psknet.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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