From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 05:43:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA09599 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 05:43:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from stills.pubnix.net (Stills.pubnix.net [192.172.250.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09593 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 05:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uguard@localhost) by stills.pubnix.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with UUCP id IAA16422; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 08:43:28 -0500 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA01847; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 07:50:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 07:50:18 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: Palle Girgensohn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Three MX-records to one machine? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm setting up a sendmail.cf for a machine that has three mx-records > pointing to it (of which two are brand new). I get a "local configuration > error" when sending mail for the newer ones, which is OK since I haven't > added these names to the sendmail.cf file. My question is how do I add > them? Can I just have three "Cw", "Dm" & "Dj"-rows in the same file, or is > there another way to solve it? > Any ideas appreciated. > Add them to the Cw line sepearated with a space, for example: Cw foo.com abc.org xyzzy.net This will cause sendmail to correctly accept messages to these hosts. Keep in mind however that unless you define rules to direct anything@foo.com into a uucp spool or mailbox, you have the problem where abc@foo.com = abc@abc.org = abc@xyzzy.net. Andrew Webster - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde 514-990-5911 - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3