Hi,

does courier override dns mx entries with it�s local settings? I have
a situation, where this happens. I would like to change this.

Server.A is a machine that is configured as a Fallback Mail Server. If
the main.mailserver.dom is offline, dns A records change and Server.A
will be main.mailserver.tld itself. (Yes, multiple mx records should
be sufficient, but we use this fallback for webservers anyway so using
it for mailservers was a site-effect...)

So Server.A has always a fully functional courier configuration for
several domains, including example.com, waiting in "hot standby mode"
for it�s combat order.

Now, just for some practical reasons and to not let the machine feel
so lonely, I am using this Server.A as the  mailserver for some
private addresses. So I discovered, if I want to send mail to a
friendsdomain.tld, that is configured in esmptacceptmailfor and
hosteddomains on the same machine, it will never leave Server.A. 

Note: "dig mx friendsdomain.tld" in this case will NOT point with any
hostname or ip to Server.A !

So, if I understand things right, courier seems to override infos from
mx record with the settings in /etc/courier.

Is this a feature? Can this be changed? What did i wrong? 

If you want to discuss [dis-] advantages of the dns a-record-changing
fallback strategy, this should be a seperate thread but nevertheless
it would be very interesting to hear your opinions.


Thanks for your attention!

Have a nice day,
Peter


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