From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 12:44:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02801 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02784 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id TAA06266; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:44:19 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:44:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Dave Babler 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 On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Dave Babler wrote: > 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 Once you are happy that mail is flowing the way you want, you can change the MX records so that the MX for orionsys.com goes to rigel and then TryNullMXList is no longer needed. Since user@orionsys.com is the only address you want the outside world to use (and stress to your users that using a bbs.orionsys.com address will defeat your anti-spam measures) almost all incoming mail will go to rigel and there be shunted off to the appropriate machine. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82