From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 15: 7:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568CA37B405 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:07:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0BN7SX93204; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:07:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C3F7030.9080309@rambo.simx.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:07:28 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Straiton Cc: "'Ken Bolingbroke'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail issues References: <008301c19aed$ebcd1fe0$4116c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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