From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 12:11:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00405 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:11:45 -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 MAA00395 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA24942; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:11:32 -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 Dan, Thanks for the help... your solution seems to work great, but with a problem that worries me. The only way I can make sendmail actually try to deliver anything is to add the TryNullMXList option, which according to the Sendmail manual is 'not safe'. The Sendmail book also *talks* about the error I consistantly get ('MX list for xxx points back to yyy') without really saying how to *fix*it. Should I be concerned that I seem to have to add the TryNullMXList option? On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, 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... > > You just need to do a little more work. In the sendmail rules, > add another between the first two > > R$+ < @ orionsys.com . > $#esmtp $@ bbs.orionsys.com $: $1 < @ bbs.orionsys.com . > > > and a third rule > R$+ < @ altair.orionsys.com . > $#esmtp $@ altair.orionsys.com $: $1 < @ altair.orionsys.com . > >