Re: Maybe OT - Relaying question

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 11:57, patrick main wrote:
> all you need is to use the mailertable usually in
> /etc/mail/mailertable
> example entry is ...   my-domain.com   smtp:[mail.my-domain.com]
> 
> first entry is the domain to relay and the second is the host
> to relay to, NOTE: the brackets around the destination host
> means to ignore MX )mail handling) records for the destination
> host. i've always used smtp: and never tried the esmtp:
> 
>   i also setup an entry in the relay-domains also in
> /etc/mail this is simple just list the domains you will
> relay for. this used to be the sendmail.cw file
> 
>    i suspect people who reported problems with the mailertable
> did not place brackets around the destination host and i have
> never tried not having the domain listed in the relay-domains
> table which was the old sendmail.cw list. If you don't place
> the destination host in brackets in the mailertable then the
> server will look up and use any MX records it finds. no MX records
> and only IP address entries for the destination host will mean
> no brackets would be needed. Of course no brackets may be desired
> where the spam server processes email then forwards to a domain
> that has multiple mail servers.
>  -Patrick-
> 
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Many thanks to all who replied.  As soon as I saw the answers I
remembered using mailertable about a year ago.  I just forgot about it.

Thanks,
Thomas