Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:07:56 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Stewart Flood <radioshow@ivo.net>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail/mailertable question Message-ID: <20051024230756.GA12082@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <9184F321-00C3-47C9-885C-014BFE245993@mac.com> References: <20051024223808.GA10918@teddy.fas.com> <9184F321-00C3-47C9-885C-014BFE245993@mac.com>
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:51:12PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:38 PM, stan wrote: > >I have a machine that hosts several virtual domains. The domains > >have wildcarded DNS records. > > > >I want mail recived for say "foo@listmaint.samp.ivosite.com" to get > >passed > >on downstream like that without striping out the "listmaint" part. > >I think I can do this with mailertable. > > Get rid of the "hash -o" in your mailertable line, too. Your DNS > wildcard MX records are telling sendmail that the mail should go to > prod1.ivo.net: Just the -o part, right? > > ;; QUERY SECTION: > ;; listmaint.samp.ivosite.com, type = MX, class = IN > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > listmaint.samp.ivosite.com. 1H IN MX 10 prod1.ivo.net. > > If you want to disable DNS canonification, do something like this in > your mailertable: > > listmaint.samp.ivosite.com smtp:[IP_of_real_MX] > > ...where IP_of_real_MX if the IP address of the machine which is > supposed to actually handle the mail for that machine, and is > different from prod1.ivo.net. You can't fool your wildcard DNS > record otherwise, because even if you try, remote SMTP hosts will > look up the MX anyway. But it's _not_ different than prod1. I just want sendmail to pass the ucanonified name on to the downstream processing (think procmail) so that it's easy for automated downstream processing to handle it. Sorry if I was not clear in the original message. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
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