From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 21:57:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C7A16A416 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0C743D58 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:57:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k9ILv7q4012057 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:57:08 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9ILv9NJ093135; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:57:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9ILv8O2093134; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:57:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:57:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.573, required 5, AWL -0.17, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:57:25 -0000 On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline 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'.