From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 11 02:04:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA08777 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:04:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from birdland.rhein-neckar.de (root@birdland.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.88.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA08764 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by birdland.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id LAA23045; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:02:14 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:02:14 +0100 (MET) From: BSD Mailinglisten-User To: Jim Riffle cc: Shigetoh Howard Kumagai , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Exchange client In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jim Riffle wrote: > The weird thing which I just don't understand on how this should work is > if I give a MX record for say foo.com so that mail is handled by > 207.51.167.3, and then on 207.51.167.3, put in a CW line so that it will > accept mail for the domain, how in the world is it ever going to get to > the client who dials up saying they are foo.com. foo.com is already set > to have 207.51.167.3 handle its mail, so when sendmail processes its que, > it would seem that it would try to send the mail right back to itself. > Is this a simple issue of having 2 MX records, having their machine having > a higher priority? You can always use the "mailertable" feature and put something like .foo.bar smtp:smtpgateway.foo.bar in your mailertable. Then sendmail will send all mail to .foo.bar via smtp to smtpgateway.foo.bar. The sticky part is the triggering of outgoing mail by the exchange server... smtp isn't really made for BS like that (IMHO typical Microsoft behaviour... raping standards they didn't invent...). I don't know if there is a canonical solution for this. At work (the powers to be decreed that we _have_ to use exchange for smtp-mail) I solved this by using a small FBSD mailhandler. It gets mail from our ISP by uucp and send it by LAN to the exchange server by smtp... Martin | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: maja@birdland.rhein-neckar.de | | Voice: +49 621/53 95 06 Fax: +49 621/53 95 07 | | Snail Mail: Koenigsbacher Str. 16 D-67067 Ludwigshafen Germany | | RNInet e.V. Rhein-Neckar Internet |