From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 06:09:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA28120 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:09:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28092 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04873; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:07:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA08284; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:07:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990108150753.0094f940@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:07:53 +0100 To: Jason McKay , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Sendmail and MX In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990108132440.006d71e0@webace.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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