From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 21:11:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B569A37B402 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-119aekg.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.58.144] helo=motil) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WVzC-00022r-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:11:42 -0800 Message-ID: <017501c1aaf8$3e8e9eb0$6e00a8c0@motil> From: "barazani" To: Subject: how to cause sendmail to recoginze subdomain mx ? Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:12:51 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi to All , I have a dns server with a root and subdomain on it . domain.com - > mx is mx.domain.com sub.domain.com -> mx is mx.sub.domain.com on any host this config works meaning if i send email to: x@domain.com mta will connect to mx.domain.com x@sub.domain.com mta will connect to mx.sub.domain.com but if i do this from the dns server , sendmail will treat sub.domain.com as if it is a hostname and not a subdomain and will redirect mail to mx.domain.com instead of mx.sub.domain.com . how can i cause sendmail to treat @sub.domain.com as a subdomain address rather than a hostname ? thanks . Barazani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message