Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:14:43 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. > > [[ ... ]] > > 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'. This would work [or ought to!]; right now, all my mail echange entries are equi-valued at 50. But this seems like a back door way of dealing with sendmail. I'm the first to admit that it's a less tha optimal suite, obscure beyond words, (etc). But I'd like to understand how to resolve this problem with senmail.... (*mumble*) gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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