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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail Configuration
To: mikel@esimene.cynet.net.au
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 21:22:25 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199606020159.LAA11936@esimene.cynet.net.au> from Mikel Lindsaar at "Jun 2, 96 11:51:09 am"
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> 
> My ISP has setup the following:
> 
> esimene.cynet.net.au.    IN A    203.24.16.1
Okay.

> cynet.net.au.            IN A    203.24.16.1
Probably not what you really want, but should work.  This should
really just be:
cynet.net.au.		IN MX	10	esimene.cynet.net.au.

> Now...
> 
> I have a reachable mail id (mikel@esimene.cynet.net.au)
> 
> now I want to be able to have the address mikel@cynet.net.au working...
> ie, mail going to that address gets handled by esimene.cynet.net.au and
> recieved by the appropriate user on esimene.cynet.net.au
> 
> I know this should be very easy... I have browsed through the man pages
> for sendmail, aliases etc to no success.
> 
> Does the solution lie in creating an MX record like
> 
> cynet.net.au.   IN MX   0  esimene.cynet.net.au.
> 
> or is it a sendmail config?

Both, you need the A or MX record so that outside hosts connect to
esimene, then you need esimene itself to realize that it is also
being addressed as ``cynet.net.au''.  Add/Change the Cw line in
/etc/sendmail.cf to read:
Cwlocalhost cynet.net.au

> Any help or pointers to FAQs etc would be great!
O'Reiley's bat book ``Sendmail'' is a must have for anyone doing much
of anything with sendmail.


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