Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:16:33 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <5E10959B-FA19-41C4-9268-1183CCF616F1@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20061019193854.GC11212@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> <EA1428C1-A621-4DC4-85DD-02C208EBF62C@mac.com> <20061019193854.GC11212@thought.org>
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On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >> 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.... > > Solunds like a win.. hopefully. Can you sent me the mailtable > that I might use to have "kline@thought.org" goto zen.thought.org > and zivic@thought.org be forwarded to ns1.thought.org, and > grzegorz@thought.org be sent to ethos.thought.org? Nope. What you've asked for now is different than what you originally asked for; if you don't want email for all users @thought.org to be delivered locally on one machine, that's a different problem, and it cannot be solved with a mailertable alone. If it is only a few users, consider setting up .forward files. Otherwise, you will have to set up a virtusertable instead, by adding: FEATURE(`virtusertable')dnl VIRTUSER_DOMAIN(`thought.org')dnl ...in your sendmail.mc, and then create /etc/mail/virtusertable with something like: kline@thought.org kline@zen.thought.org zivic@thought.org zivic@ns1.thought.org grzegorz@thought.org grzegorz@ethos.thought.org ...and do a "make maps" in /etc/mail, or run: /usr/sbin/makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/ virtusertable Note that splitting delivery within a domain like this is generally undesirable compared with setting up a central mailhost and using IMAP to read the mail from the clients, rather than trying to deliver mail to individual client machines. Because if you want to deliver to these individual client machines, you need to set up mail on all of them, and make sure your DNS entries are right, preferably by creating MX records for each new mailserver, etc... > Is there ay way of testing this after I have set up my table > entries? In other words, how do I re-initialize things without > having to (ugh) *reboot*. Of course you can restart sendmail without having to reboot... -- -Chuck
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