Bowie Bailey wrote: > From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Bowie Bailey writes: >> >>> I need to send my outbound email to "mail.bellsouth.net", however >>> there are also MX records for this machine which point to machines >>> that will not relay for me. >>> >>> Is there any way to specify to esmptroutes to use only the A >>> records? I hardcoded one of the IP addresses in the file and it >>> works fine, but I don't like that solution because it's going to >>> break if they change the IP addresses of their mail servers or >>> remove the one I'm using. >>> >>> These are the DNS responses I get: >>> >>> mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN MX 0 mx00.mail.bellsouth.net. >>> mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN MX 0 mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. >>> mail.bellsouth.net. 3487 IN A 205.152.59.17 >>> mail.bellsouth.net. 3487 IN A 205.152.59.16 >>> >>> mx00.mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN A 205.152.59.32 >>> mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN A 205.152.59.33 >> >> You can explicitly specify 'mx00.mail.bellsouth.net' in esmtproutes. > > Yes, but that won't work because mx00 and mx01 will not relay mail for > me. I need to send the mail to 'mail.bellsouth.net'. This means it > has to get to either 205.152.59.16 or 205.152.59.17. Is there any way > to do this without hardcoding one of those two IPs? > wouldn't it just be easier to complain to bellsouth that its mail configuration is broken? how do you normally use them if they can't send mail? I don't think this would just be limited to a problem with courier.
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