From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 00:15:16 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 CB96916A4CA for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:15:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D5143D6B for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9J0ExM8003816; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9J0EhaB003811; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:14:43 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , 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: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:15:16 -0000 On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. > > [[ ... ]] > > 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