From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 00:22:48 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 076BB16A51E for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:22:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4833E43D46 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:22:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin05-en2 [10.13.10.150]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout13/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9J0Mk4B008251; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin05/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9J0Mi7h018551; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:22:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:22:44 -0700 To: Gary Kline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List 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 00:22:48 -0000 On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > This would work [or ought to!]; right now, all my mail e[x]change > 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[n] optimal suite, obscure beyond words, (etc). But I'd > like to understand how to resolve this problem with sen[d]mail.... You can override MX prioritization by using a mailertable. But you will need to list IP addresses in square brackets to disable MX lookups and force other MX hosts to relay mail to where-ever you want. Therefore, the simple answer is to make sure that the final destination for email to your domain is listed as the highest- priority MX record (ie, lowest numeric MX value). And you will either need to masquarade for your domain, or you will need to list all of the hostnames for which email is being addressed to in class w (aka /etc/mail/local-host-names) on the mailserver which performs local delivery.... -- -Chuck