From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 22 12:34:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA01563 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 12:34:37 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA01557 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 12:34:34 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id NAA00267 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 13:37:13 -0600 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 13:37:13 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199507221937.NAA00267@trout.sri.MT.net> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: MX records and sendmail Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do I go about setting up a MX record such that email to site A is sent to site B but is only queued up instead of being delivered to the users on Site B. Machine A is connected to the Internet via a SLIP line, which goes down whenever I need the phone or need the computer for non-BSD work. Machine B is on the Internet full-time, and is the primary DNS box for my sub-net. I added the MX record to point to machine B which machine A is down, but it was orginally rejecting the email until I modified the sendmail.cf file to accept mail to machine B. However, now it's delivering the email to the users on machine B instead of queing up the email and waiting until machine A is back up, and I can't send email from machine B to A since B knows it's machine A. Is this possible? Since I have access to both machines, I know that I can at least get the mail destined to machine A no matter what if it at least spools on machine B. Thanks in advance, Nate