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.

> Bowie
>
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