From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 19:20:13 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 91BDC16A412 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:20:13 +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 DE91A43D45 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:20:12 +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 k9JJJMI6066151; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9JJJLjt066150; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:19:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20061019191921.GB11212@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> <20061019002244.GA1877@gothmog.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061019002244.GA1877@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 19:20:13 -0000 On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:22:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-10-18 17:14, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > 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.... > > Sendmail (or any other MTA, for that matter) should really *trust* the > DNS admin to properly configure MX records. > > There's nothing wrong with relying on MX records which, for example, > point to: > > thought.org. IN MX 10 mx1.thought.org. > thought.org. IN MX 20 mx2.thought.org. > > If I understood what you are trying to do, then a nice set of MX > priorities *does* what you want. Why would you want to mess with > mailertables? :) > I *really* don't hate myself, am not a masovhist, honest! But after ~14 years, it's time to understand sendmail. That's all. ---I mean without investing--(wasting)-- months tying to work thru all of ERic Allman's hack-arounds. :-) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix