Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:22:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061019002244.GA1877@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org>
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On 2006-10-18 17:14, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is only for sendmail *wizards* out there. It took me two
> > > hours of messing round with the /etc/mail/* files on ns1|sage
> > > before I just gave up. After I rebooted both servers to get mail
> > > to default to tao.
> > >
>
> [[ ... ]]
>
> > > My one question is given that mail defaults to my
> > > ns1.thought.org, HOW can I get it to go to (say) zen.thought.org,
> > > or to tao.thought.org? or to ethos.thought.org? OR what
> > > re-initialization do I have to do? other than a shutdown -r
> > > now??
> > >
> > > I thought I had this down cold, but nope.....
> > >
> > > gary
> > >
> > > PS: Mail from my magnesium.net account mailed explicitedly to
> > > kline@sage.thought.org, kline@ethos.thought.org,
> > > kline@zen.thought.org, or kline@tao.thought.org---in other
> > > words, using the FQDN-- gets to which ever server. But how
> > > do I make "kline@thought.org" reach a specific server??
> > >
> > > PS: Apologizes if this seems like an obscure question; it IS....
> >
> > By setting the "MX" records for `thought.org' up so that the one with
> > the lowest value of them all points to that specific server.
> >
> > This should be configured in the name-server which hosts the DNS zone
> > for `thought.org'.
>
> This would work [or ought to!]; right now, all my mail echange
> entries are equi-valued at 50. But this seems like a back door
> way of dealing with sendmail. I'm the first to admit that it's a
> less tha optimal suite, obscure beyond words, (etc). But I'd
> like to understand how to resolve this problem with senmail....
Sendmail (or any other MTA, for that matter) should really *trust* the
DNS admin to properly configure MX records.
There's nothing wrong with relying on MX records which, for example,
point to:
thought.org. IN MX 10 mx1.thought.org.
thought.org. IN MX 20 mx2.thought.org.
If I understood what you are trying to do, then a nice set of MX
priorities *does* what you want. Why would you want to mess with
mailertables? :)
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