Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:07:28 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org> To: John Straiton <jks@clickcom.com> Cc: "'Ken Bolingbroke'" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail issues Message-ID: <3C3F7030.9080309@rambo.simx.org> References: <008301c19aed$ebcd1fe0$4116c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>
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John Straiton wrote: >I want to open by saying that I really appreciate you taking the time to >respond to me and that I really respect your opinion of "fix it, don't >hack it". Please, please don't take this the wrong way because I agree >with you in spirit, but have to disagree by corporate mentality, let me >explain: > >>If you're saying that the mail for those domains are hosted >>elsewhere, then all you do is skip them, because you won't be >>getting those "mail loops back to self" errors with those >>domains anyway. >>If a given domain isn't intended to have mail delivered for >>it, it shouldn't have an MX record. That's why an error >>message is generated. You're seeking for a hack to silence >>the error message rather than correcting the misconfiguration. >>Finding a hack as an alternative to >>fixing the problem usually just gives you something else that >>is going to break down the line. >> > >Yes, that's what I'm looking for- a hack. > [snip] Ok, if I understand this correctly, the only problem is that all those errors fills your inbox, making it difficult to find the mails that contains "real" error or complaints? A real ugly hack would be to use some kind of message filtering in your mail client. All mails containing the text "MX points back to" or similar are moved to a folder, ie "inbox/MX_bouncers". That way, you can keep your MX records, they wont fill your inbox, and in case you want to read them, you will still have them. I know its a ugly solution, but you wanted a hack.. :) -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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