From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 11:48:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vmail.clickcom.com (vmail.clickcom.com [209.198.22.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDA037B405 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from fishbowl (someone@calefaction.clickcom.com [209.198.22.19]) by vmail.clickcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0BJmlv75524; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:48:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jks@clickcom.com) From: "John Straiton" To: "'Ken Bolingbroke'" Cc: Subject: RE: OT: Sendmail issues Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:45:44 -0500 Message-ID: <005e01c19ad8$93412ca0$4116c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020111101247.P5440-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> 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 Thanks for the input so far. I'm getting a lot of "Why not add it to sendmail.cf"? here's why.. > > Since we have multiple mail servers, and some bizarrely custom > > configurations, simply adding all the domains in BIND to > > local-host-names is not an option. > > Not to be obtuse, but why not? Well I'm trying to avoid a lot of manual work in this seeing as there are a couple thousand domains to take care of. Granted, I could take a PERL script and have it parse all my .db files for BIND and if it finds this mail server's IP, add it to local-host-names but it would still leave ~ 100 domains to manually alter. Situations that come to mind are in ones in which we host the DNS but not the mail.... There are dozens of these alone. We wouldn't want the domain to be local then. It would also complicate the situations where we have the DNS set up (because it's an automated process) and then we have to change their MX to a mail server they have of their own or they are doing ETRN. We would then now also have to go back and remove it from the local-host-names if we modified the MX away from this machine. I mean I know with infinate monkeys on infinate typewriters that this is all very possible, but being that for this particular task, I'm a one-man-show; I need to find the most time/cost effective manner. Which is why I felt that if this one particular "misconfiguration" were ignored or alternately handled by sendmail, neither of those situations or the ones I haven't even thought of would have to be addressed. I haven't found anything, anywhere though that seems to offer suggestions as to how I could get this to happen without knowing enough C to hack up the source =/ John Straiton ClickCom, Inc. jks@clickcom.com (704)365-9970x101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message