On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:22:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-10-18 17:14, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:57:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > 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? :)
>
I *really* don't hate myself, am not a masovhist, honest!
But after ~14 years, it's time to understand sendmail. That's
all. ---I mean without investing--(wasting)-- months tying to
work thru all of ERic Allman's hack-arounds.
:-)
gary
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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