Smarthost Failover - WAS RE: [Mimedefang] SMTP mailertable question
WBrown at e1b.org
WBrown at e1b.org
Wed Jan 7 16:24:24 EST 2004
mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 01/07/2004 03:26:23
PM:
> Hmmm. I mentioned it because []'s are used in the mailertable to tell
> sendmail "Don't look up an MX for this hostname, just assume that that
> hostname accepts incoming SMTP on port 25". It works just fine with
> hostnames there. It still does a lookup for the A record so it can
> connect to that host, but it doesn't do any further DNS checks.
>
> For instance, in the mailertable on the hosting server here, I have
> lines like:
>
> domain.com esmtp:[domain.com]
>
> They host their own mail, but our hosting server is a backup MX, and
> leaving out the brackets may cause sendmail to go into a loop trying to
> deliver to itself. :/ (I think it actually did so once.)
Can multiple hosts be used on an entry in mailertable? Something along
the lines of:
Domain.org smtp:[server.domain.org],[server2.domain.org]
I didnt see anything like that yet in the documentation for sendmail.
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