Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:31:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, jon@caamora.com.au, domi@saargate.de, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail: Receive mails for every subdomain Message-ID: <199909231231.NAA02997@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:28:27 %2B0200." <13078.938068107@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> > > > Should be... if your MX is (say) mx.domain.com try something like
> > > >
> > > > .domain.com smtp:[mx.domain.com]
> > > >
> > > > in your mailer table and
> > > >
> > > > *.domain.com. IN MX 0 mx.domain.com.
> > > >
> > > > in your DNS. See src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README for details.
> > >
> > > i've been wondering about this sort of entry in the dns table
> > > fro some time. i've asked several people about the posibilities
> > > and have been told that this particular habit is frowned upon
> > > and should be avoided.
> ...
> > Heh, well I'm certainly the last person to invite to this sort of
> > argument :-] I've read the first 200 pages of the second edition
> > O'Reilly Sendmail book and the rest of my knowledge in this area
> > comes from trying things out and making things up :*)
> >
> > I don't see that wildcard MXs are really evil. The argument is
> > probably that people shouldn't be sending to arbitrary machines
> > unless your outgoing mail is misconfigured (dodgy from address).
>
> No. Wildcard MXs really are evil, because they *don't work the way
> you expect*.
[.....]
Well, they work the way *I* expect :-) I just want to be able to
accept mail that's incorrectly destined for *.lan.Awfulhak.org - an
internal domain.
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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