Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:07:53 +0100 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: Jason McKay <jasonm@webace.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail and MX Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990108150753.0094f940@relay.alice.it> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990108132440.006d71e0@webace.com.au>
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At 21.24 08/01/99 +0800, you wrote: >barney.webace.com.au IP= 203.25.160.154 >prth2.webace.com.au IP= 203.38.80.200 > >Our MX records currently are: > > IN MX 10 barney.webace.com.au. > IN A 203.25.160.154 > >Our mail server is barney, I have setup sendmail and popper on 'prth2' and >would like users on 'prth2' to use that mail server. Only problem is I guess >I need a MX record for 'prth2' ... How would I go about setting this up? I >have tried playing around with the MX records, but I get errors like mail >looping back (MX problem?) etc. I assume that the MX record you listed refers to the zone of your domain, webace.com.au. That record causes all the e-mail for user@domain (i.e. john.smith@webace.com.au) to be received by barney, so OK: barney is your central, unique mail server. When someone sends a message to john.smith@prth2.webace.com.au, the message is correctly delivered to prth2, not barney. You need another MX record for prth2, with a lower priority, only if you want to set up prth2 as a backup mail server. If you want to specify that messages for john.smith@webace.com.au must be delivered to barney and messages for jack.stone@webace.com.au must be delivered to prth2, one simple way is to set up sendmail on barney to use prth2 as the relay for unknown users. Remember to specify webace.com.au as recognized in both sendmail configurations. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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