Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:57:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org>
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On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > This is only for sendmail *wizards* out there. It took me two > hours of messing round with the /etc/mail/* files on ns1|sage > before I just gave up. After I rebooted both servers to get mail > to default to tao. > > After my first "fatal trap" on 01 Sept, I changed (uncommented) my > ^Cw tao.thought.org > line on sage's sendmail.cf to get mail going to sage rather than tao. > I do realize that this Cw line means: route all mail for "tao" to > localhost, which here was sage. With this Cw commented out, mail > for kline@thought.org was routed to tao. Uncommented, and mail > stayed in sage.thought.org. > > My one question is given that mail defaults to my > ns1.thought.org, HOW can I get it to go to (say) zen.thought.org, > or to tao.thought.org? or to ethos.thought.org? OR what > re-initialization do I have to do? other than a shutdown -r > now?? > > I thought I had this down cold, but nope..... > > gary > > PS: Mail from my magnesium.net account mailed explicitedly to > kline@sage.thought.org, kline@ethos.thought.org, > kline@zen.thought.org, or kline@tao.thought.org---in other > words, using the FQDN-- gets to which ever server. But how > do I make "kline@thought.org" reach a specific server?? > > PS: Apologizes if this seems like an obscure question; it IS.... By setting the "MX" records for `thought.org' up so that the one with the lowest value of them all points to that specific server. This should be configured in the name-server which hosts the DNS zone for `thought.org'.
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