Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:47:25 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061019214725.GA1683@gothmog.pc> 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 2006-10-19 12:38, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:22:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger 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? I see an
> example as the equivalent of 10K words.
I'll let Chuck write what he had in mind :)
>
> 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*.
If you modify `mailertable' in `/etc/mail', you should be able to run:
# cd /etc/mail
# make mailertable.db
to update it. A reboot is not necessary for Sendmail changes.
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